1945-1991

Examines the tense fifty-year power struggle between the communist world and the West, tracing the cold war through its various stages and explaining why the world began to change in the 1980s.

Discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transfomation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's baby boomer generation, using interviews from men and women who graduated from high school in 1967 from two magnet secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English.

A Ukrainian poet's memoirs of trial and imprisonment in a Soviet hard-labor camp, where he joined a distinguished group of prisoners.

Examines the origins of the Cold War after World War II, major players, and debates about how this major U.S. foreign policy should be implemented.

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.