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 ...

Cold War Fanned. Later in the week, at the celebration of the 36th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, old Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, spoke ...

Perhaps in the 18th century an individualist account of science might have seemed plausible, but by the time of the Cold War, after the Manhattan Project, it was clearly absurd.

Between Stalin’s shadow and the Cold War, the Soviet leader both perpetuated and decried Soviet antisemitism. ... Then, after Stalin’s death, we arrested the spread a bit, but only arrested it.

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes ...

Identify the elements of Chinese and Russian communist elite politics of the Cold War era that underpin current political culture in Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

The decision to start the war in Korea was made by one man: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. After initially rebuffing the pleas of North Korea’s dictator, Kim Il-sung, for Soviet ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town of Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany. The ...

This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Here’s how ‘The Day After’ got made ... Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin -- in February 1945.