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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...
Suzanne Massie, ‘Reagan’s Window on the Soviet Union,’ Dies at 94
An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...
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Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?
He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter ... power he appoints Stalin to be General Secretary of the Communist Party.
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...