1917-1991, soviet union

Provides information on the Soviet Union, including the detente of recent years, and presents biographies of leaders, a chronology, and an alphabetical list by topic of major U.S.-Soviet treaties.

Examines both sides of the nine-year military conflict between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, which lasted from 1979 until 1989, from the perspectives of soldiers; and compares this conflict to the twenty-first-century American invasion of Afghanistan.

The relationship between Kennedy and Khrushchev and its impact on the Cold War.

Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.

A collection of essays about Sheila Fitzpatrick and her writings on the Stalin era Soviet Union.

A collection of eighteen essays about the New Economic Policy era of the Soviet Union.

A collection of writings in which Russian women describe what it was like to live in Russia in the first half of the twentieth century.

Traces the history of the Cold War from its origins in the aftermath of World War II to its abrupt end with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Analyzes the thoughts and actions of Joseph Stalin through examination of declassified materials from the Soviet Party and the exploration of the relationship between war and revolution.