The Soviet Union should have been celebrating its 100th anniversary of the October Revolution very soon: in 2017. ... The Soviet Union, which to my generation seemed eternal, in fact had a rather short life of seventy-four years. ..…

Bush offended many Jews by calling himself “one lonely little guy” facing “powerful political forces” after more than 1,200 Israel activists lobbied Congress, seeking loan guarantees to help Israel resettle emigrating Soviet Jews. ..…

Recognizing Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s precarious position, Bush refused. ... Yet Bush would be damned if he’d let the collapse of the Soviet empire serve as an excuse for reducing American military commitments abroad. ..…

Soviet forces attacked Poland from the east on September 17, under pact with Germany, and the city of Warsaw surrendered 10 days later .. ..…

two alliances battled it out to the end Axis powers led by Germany, Italy and Japan and the ultimately Allied forces led by Britain, Soviet Union and United States.. ..…

Commentary Russia and China formed in 2001 that puts Soviet-led military alliance — the.. ..…

I think most scholars would agree that Afghanistan was in Soviet collapse, and I do not think anyone would go Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland and historian of Russia and Soviet Union, told Post.. The moral, social and political costs of the war were substantial and contributed to..…

From his post in Switzerland, about the massacres of thousands, then tens of thousands, of Jews carried out conjunction with German of Soviet Union in the summer and autumn of 1941. ..…

What is striking also is that, in the post-Soviet Union years, EU and NATO enlargement has moved eastwards almost in synchronization. ... The NATO attack came at a time when Russia as a nation was weak, still recovering from Soviet dissolution in late 1991. ..…

This is Chinese intelligence — that we're not just out to steal secrets, we're not just out to protect ourselves, that American goal is the end of Chinese Communism, just as that was the goal with Soviet Union, .. ..…

Between 1939 and 1941, Soviet about Nazi Germany was glowing, that Soviets began painting swastikas on public buildings and on posters of Soviet leaders.. Hitler's purge of all opponents within Nazi Party, Soviet dictator remarked. ..…

Soviet forces attack Poland from the east on September 17th, under pact with Germany, and the city of Warsaw surrenders 10 days later... ... On February 2, 1943, Battle of Stalingrad ends with Soviet over Nazis.. ..…

According to Berlin, Poland, then Soviet satellite, for reparations to Germany - German Democratic Republic - in 1953.. ..…

Politics generates its own distinct tics; Charles and David were left heavy with the anti-socialist sentiments of their bruising father, Fred, who supervised the building of refineries in a Soviet Union hungry for petroleum engineering.  ..…

As it turns out, by the way, the Soviet threat was grossly exaggerated, as such threats always are. The wickedness of the Soviet regime was never in doubt, but its capabilities and intentions were consistently distorted and overblown. . ..…