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The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

Activist, chef, and cookbook author Yevhen Klopotenko is peeling away layers of Soviet-era influence on the table.

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A new history of the Soviet dissident movement tries to make ... and involved many of the same people as, the dissident movement. These NGOs focused on liberal issues familiar to their Western ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...

His 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer is considered one of the most famous duels in the history of the game as well as a metaphor for the competition for Cold War supremacy.

Teaching of history in the Soviet Union and Russia has always focused ... Great Patriotic War than on Nazi extermination of Jewish people. And aspects such as the secret Nazi-Soviet pact ...

The US responds with an 11-month long airlift of supplies to people trapped in that part of the city. On 29 August 1949 the Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The Cold War begins in earnest.