Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted—
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What was known about Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev during his career was strictly limited by the secretive Soviet gov
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Cold War-era imagery is defined by the striking contrast between the ideal of the nuclear family and the nightmare of nu
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A photographic tour of hot spots in Europe, America, Canada, and Africa during the height of the Cold War. Cold War-er
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More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to commun
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The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various
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Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key
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At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.S. Army just as the Pentagon w
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A history of development as a global Cold War project and as the pivotal concept for organizing society and the economy
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"The tourist Venice is Venice," Mary McCarthy once observed—a sentiment very much in line with what most of th
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