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Hace 1 día · Andrei Gromyko was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and is the longest-serving foreign minister in the world. L–R: Llewellyn Thompson, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and Dean Rusk. After Germany's defeat, the United States sought to help its Western European allies economically with the Marshall Plan.
Hace 2 días · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
Hace 3 días · Its main functions were foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence, operative-investigative activities, guarding the state border of the USSR, guarding the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government, organization and security of government communications as well as combating nationalist ...
Hace 4 días · Even though Sakwa's main focus is on domestic matters, this selection of documents is also good at illuminating the development of Soviet foreign policy. The Soviet state had come into existence in 1917 determined to promote its model of revolution abroad. The impact of this position both on the USSR itself, and on foreign states ...
Hace 1 día · The Warsaw Pact ( WP ), [d] formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance ( TFCMA ), [e] was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
Hace 5 días · The documents also thoroughly cover foreign affairs during this era, including U.S. involvement in Central America and the Caribbean, U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union, the increasingly strained relations with Japan, and U.S. responses to the deteriorating political situation in Europe.
Hace 4 días · From 1928 until his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union as a dictator, transforming the country from an agrarian peasant society into a global superpower. The cost was tremendous, however: Stalin was responsible for the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens.
