In a lengthy and important essay in Foreign Affairs about “detente” with the Soviet Union, historian Niall Ferguson, who is completing the second-volume of ...

Leaders will gather in Finland to mark 50 years since the Helsinki Final Act, which paved the way for the OSCE. But as Russia ...

A Soviet combat brigade was discovered in Cuba in September, echoing the traumas of the Cuban missile crisis. Soon after, Iranian revolutionaries took American diplomats hostage in Tehran.

Growing alarm was expressed over the fate of U.S.-Soviet detente as a result of the war and reports of large-scale Soviet arms airlifts to Egypt and Syria. Dr.

During my time in the Soviet Union in 1984, I was repeatedly surprised that the one American that the average Russian most wanted to toast was Richard Nixon. Why?

Distinguished diplomat Henry Kissinger passed away at 100 Wednesday having won the Noble Peace Prize, 'Detente' with the Soviet Union and China, and scorn, labeled a "War Criminal" and "Carpet ...

His dissertation, on Bolshevik nationality theory, became the basis of his first book, “The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923” (1954).

THE Soviet Union has always argued that it was more than just a nation. As the fountainhead of an ideology that promised to right the world’s wrongs and usher in a golden age of peace and ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, in a meeting at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater of Communist delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus region, the Soviet Union was born.

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...