After Stalin’s death in 1953, it looked as though the Cold War might thaw a little. The new leader Nikita Khrushchev looked for a peaceful coexistence. In 1959 he said, There are two ways ...
he succeeds admirably in Soviet Internationalism after Stalin." David C. Engerman, Brandeis University, Massachusetts 'Tobias Rupprecht has written a compelling account of Soviet cultural relations ...
On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President ... and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming ...
The Cold War had begun ... there was little the US and UK could do. Stalin already had troops throughout central and eastern Europe. After Yalta, Churchill commissioned a plan of attack against ...
This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory ... Kristina Spohr, author of Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 ‘If we are entering a new cold war ...
Communist governments had taken over Eastern European countries after ... war in history. There is no third way. There were problems in Eastern Europe throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. The ...