the pretty daughter of the Petrograd worker in whose house he had ... The purge reached its peak in 1937 when the Soviet’s leading generals were secretly tried, and together with thousands ...

The FINANCIAL — WASHINGTON — For much of the 20th century, the Republican Party stood as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, a resolute defender of Western values rooted in democracy ...

Marshall was early to perceive that the Soviet Union was far weaker than understood, and he spotted the percolating threat from China while the U.S. was still focused on fighting in the Middle East.

Roosevelt carved the continent into the American-aligned West and the Soviet-dominated East, creating spheres of influence that became the battlegrounds of the Cold War. But talking to reporters ...

Expect the unexpected. The Cold War empire of the Soviet Union took just four years to tumble into oblivion. And the entire Bronze Age civilisation of the Eastern Mediterranean went from thriving ...

WASHINGTON − A call between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin ended with a limited agreement for Russia and Ukraine to cease attacks on energy infrastructure but stopped ...

Some of the documents already released have offered details on the way intelligence services operated at the time, including CIA cables and memos discussing visits by Oswald to the Soviet and ...

One of these places was Dzerzhinsk, a city that was once a very important part of the Soviet Union’s chemical weapons programme. Dzerzhinsk is located about 250 miles east of Moscow, and was ...

The newly-disclosed portions detail CIA surveillance of Soviet embassies in Mexico City and efforts to recruit double agents from Soviet agency personnel -- and reveal the names and positions of ...

That reflects Putin’s desire to see the military alliance withdraw from former Communist states that were part of the Soviet sphere of influence, such as Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic.

ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP The US, Russia, and Germany are holding closed-door negotiations on resuming Russian energy supplies to Europe, including through the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, The Bell ...