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16 hours ago · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by the English writer George Orwell in an article published ...
- Vietnam War
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union and China poured weapons,...
- Toward a New World Order
The 1970s saw an easing of Cold War tensions as evinced in...
- Berlin Crisis of 1961
In 1948, when the Soviet Union’s blockade of Berlin...
- Red Army
In May 1937 a drastic purge, affecting all potential...
- Vietnam War
4 days ago · The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917-1991. This is a wide-ranging collection of sources that aims to cover the whole sweep of Soviet history: Richard Sakwa's work on the politics of the Soviet Union makes him well placed to produce such a volume. Sources in History, the series in which the book appears, sets as one of its aims to merge ...
2 days ago · The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union 's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time. The coup leaders consisted of top military and ...
- 19-22 August 1991(4 days); 32 years ago
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
5 days ago · Andrew Higgins reported for many years from Russia, Georgia, Moldova and other states of the former Soviet Union. June 3, 2024. In Georgia, protesters waving European Union flags have rallied ...
The Soviet Union fell because it had acted as a prison for the majority of its people. Non-Russians were effectively marginalised, there was no free expression, shortages, no freedom of movement and the people - any people - could suddenly find themselves targeted for discrimination or even forcibly removed from their homes at the whim of whoever held power in the Kremlin.
2 days ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history ...
1 day ago · In conclusion, while it seems timely (and therefore tempting) to greet the approaching ten-year anniversary of the collapse of Soviet power with a comprehensive post-mortem, it is apparent that Smith would not claim to have produced either a complete refutation of the Pipes interpretation or an exhaustive analysis of the period 1917-23.
