A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers ...

Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...

There is no third way. There were problems in Eastern Europe throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. The Cold War even spread to the Caribbean.

According to Kennan, Stalin needed to believe in the triumph ... Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

Premier Josef Stalin, who ruled Russia since 1924, saw the Soviet empire spread eastward through China and westward through half of Europe. Cold war on Reds launched by U.S. to capitalize on ...

He condemns Stalin for deportations of nationalities ... the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the ongoing Cold War with the United States. A mix of cautious diplomacy, Cold War rivalry, and personal ...

Drawing on Thucydides’ dictum that strong and rich states do what they want and poor states do what they must, Zubok concludes that ‘the Cold War emerged in the way it did largely because the ...

Roosevelt and Churchill agree to allow Stalin to control the governments of Eastern Europe at war's end, thereby setting the stage for the future Cold War. As Soviet forces push into Berlin ...

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 ...