… In 1985, it seemed the SovietUnion would last forever. Its Communist Party rulers held a … military in the world. The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDHKh), Moscow, 1980. But just six years …
Review of A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History) , by Vladislav Zubok (2007, University of North Carolina Press)
… For fifty years the SovietUnion stood in the eyes of the West as a terrifying enigma … has permitted Vladislav M. Zubok to produce the first international study recounting the struggle from the perspective …
Review of Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War, by Ian Ona Johnson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… Ask someone to describe the SovietUnion during the Second World War and they will conjure up … … Edward George Kunz … Reviews … Europe … Diplomacy/International Relations … Germany … SovietUnion … World War II / …
… In late December 1979—thirty-five years ago this month—the Soviet army entered Afghanistan to stabilize the pro-Soviet Afghan government and offer support in its fight with … in February 1989—twenty-five years ago—the SovietUnion completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the …
… The Birth of Soviet Ukraine. When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917 … korenizatsiia , or “indigenization,” a set of policies Union-wide promoting non-Russian nationalities. No one knew, however, what might be too …
Review of To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… Khrushchev’s “Thaw” (mid-1950s to early 1960s) led to the SovietUnion’s opening up to Western culture. The 1957 Moscow Youth … too. In a captivating account of preparations for the International Youth Festival, Gilburd transports her readers to a …
Review of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
… Empire, Serhii Plokhy’s new history of the demise of the SovietUnion. Ultimately, the decision by Ukraine to declare … not with a Soviet people rapidly inclined toward local nationalism. What remained, like the British Empire, was a …
Review of Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II, by Karel C. Berkhoff (Harvard University Press, 2012)
… in the seventies – began to speak passionately about the Soviet experience of war and to describe the "German-fascist … as regards the Jewish victims of the war. Though the SovietUnion has been accused by scholars of ignoring the … given that the Soviet "Motherland" encompassed numerous nationalities, including peoples who would have preferred …
… fighting a military superpower. During the 1980s, the SovietUnion failed in its attempt to subdue that nation … supporting an unpopular regime. This policy turned international opinion against the SovietUnion. At home, the …
… was the country launching an invasion, stood for the heroic SovietUnion during the “sacred” Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), … territory Russia’s armies were about to invade, “far-right nationalists and Neo-Nazis” who, backed by their NATO …
… of an old communist statue? Just what to do with all the Soviet-era monuments in eastern Europe after the fall of the … that a Stalinist monument did not belong opposite from the National Gallery, once a royal palace ( as shown, left ). … most favorable pro-Russian opinion in the entire European Union ). In 2011, residents of Sofia woke up to find the …
… connections to Europe . And while we might think of “Soviet art” as exclusively about promoting a political … message, in fact, in the 1920s, artists across the SovietUnion truly believed their work could make the world a … making “Soviet” art, or on non-Russian artists making “national” art. Neither paradigm captures this musical revue. …
… Romanian presidency in 2024. Further, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians—a far-right, populist party advocating … elections. For some, Moldovan identity was created by the SovietUnion, a process that stripped Moldovans of their … Identity Scholar Benedict Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a …
… political order that emerged after the collapse of the SovietUnion in 1991. A startled world has watched Ukraine’s … from office (and from the country). Then events became international with Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the eruption …
… Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov disembarked from … of November 12, 1940. A German band struck up the Internationale , but at twice the normal speed—Nazi Party … November, 1940. By the time of Molotov’s visit, the SovietUnion and Nazi Germany had been partners for over a year. …
… permanently in peril. The Eisenhower era created a state of national insecurity that has lasted for half a century. The … War fears of the Eisenhower era were heightened by illusory Soviet boasts about that countryís military prowess. The … Ira Chernus … History News Service … United States … SovietUnion … Cold War … Military/War/Peace … The National …
… The U.S. National Park Service, the federal agency charged with overseeing the more than 400 parks that make up our national park system, was created on August 25, 1916. The national parks, which include an astonishing range of …
… two viruses could possibly be. Yet, the ways in which the SovietUnion reacted to the arrival of HIV/AIDS, and how it spread … to add that of the 565 infected, around 70-80% were foreign nationals and not Soviet citizens at all. These statistics …
… of the German nation, had launched the Nazi invasion of the SovietUnion in quest of world domination. It seemed certain that … incapable of dealing unaided with the SovietUnion or with national liberation movements in their colonies. Hitler’s …
… herald of the future. The next morning, Pravda , and other Soviet newspapers, announced “the first successful launch of … Pravda had in mind – were flabbergasted. Although both the Soviets and the United States had been preparing … the gap. … Benjamin Breen … Milestones … Cold War … SovietUnion … United States … Outer Space/Universe … Science & …
… history, with particular attention to the breakup of the SovietUnion, Putin’s rise to power in Russia, and the 2014 … in 1991. The SovietUnion had a federal system, every major nationality within the country had its own territorial unit. …
… Moldovan Republic (PMR)—to use the official name—is internationally recognized as a part of Moldova but has … state’s history illustrates the region’s post-Soviet shift from multiculturalism to Russian domination. A … policies and eventual independence from the SovietUnion. The Popular Front of Moldova ( Frontul Popular din …
… always cast Moscow as the perpetual “enemy” of American national interests—a view informed by antagonism between the … that Russia supported the “maintenance of the American Union as one ‘indivisible nation.’” In 1863, the Tsarist … Washington refused to recognize the newly established Soviet government. After his election to the presidency in …
… the Human Rights Council (HRC) and the affiliate International Criminal Court (ICC). Trump accused the HRC of … That document was based on Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union Address. He outlined four key freedoms that all people … the issue was brought to the Security Council, however, the SovietUnion was not present—it was boycotting the United …