This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is ...

Hitler's fascist forces had just been defeated in the Second World War. And the Soviet Union had been an ally to the West during the war. But this event would help fuel anti-Communist sentiments ...

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two of the key signatories of the dissolution treaty, a witness to the ensuing ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among ... delivering one of the most infamous moments in Cold War history. Enraged by Western criticism of Soviet policies, particularly ...

Through a local reading of the Soviet city, one can uncover a lot about the current, syncretic meanings of successor states’ capitals in a nutshell. The history and the following transformations ...