The Cold War pitted east against west, pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war. ... “After Stalin” 1953–1956 (March 29 at 11:00 and 20:00 GMT and March 30 at 02:00 GMT) ...

Stalin's brutality -- as great as that of any Russian autocrat (no mean comparison set) -- is well known. But was there also greatness in the man? Roberts answers yes, at least in terms of his ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the dawn of the Cold War, in the late 1940s – early 1950s, Joseph Stalin found inner enemies whom he considered traitors – and, unfortunately for Soviet Jews, it was them. On Jan. 13, 1948 ...

Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A World History (New York: Basic Books, 2017), 720 pp., $35.00. IN 2005, the Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis released his book, The Cold War: A New History. Glowing ...

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.

A black-and-white Polish-made film, Cold War, won five awards, including best picture, while The Death of Stalin took the prize for the best European comedy at the European Film Awards.

The Cold War pitted east against west, pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war. ... “After Stalin” 1953–1956 (March 29 at 11:00 and 20:00 GMT and March 30 at 02:00 GMT) ...

National 4; Flashpoints – Hungary, Berlin, Cuba The Cold War post-Stalin. In the 1950s and early 1960s, relations between the USA and the Soviet Union deteriorated. A series of incidents brought ...