Diplomacy, Warfare and the Politics of Communism 1941-1945; F A Fejto, A History of the People's Democracies: Eastern Europe since Stalin ... Raymond Pearson, The Rise and Fall of Soviet Europe.

The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

Stalin feared that Eastern Europe could be the doorway for an attack on the USSR by the West. Romania 1945 In the 1945 elections, a communist-led coalition government was elected. The communists ...

The communist and Soviet heritage is a significant part of the historical and cultural heritage in Eastern Europe. It has shaped the unique landscape of many cities and has a significant impact on the ...

The most dramatic event during this period for people in the West was the fall of the Berlin Wall. While the communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed, the Soviet Union did not intervene.

After WWII, Truman watched most of Eastern Europe fall to the Communist "Iron Curtain." "I do not think we should play compromise any longer," Truman wrote.

In the fall of 1963 American efforts to build ... embarrassing the Soviets and threatening the Communist hold on Eastern Europe. In June 1961 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to ...

For nearly half a century Albania experienced a brand of communism unknown to the rest of Eastern Europe. A fateful blend ... have improved since the fall of communism. Nevertheless, problems ...

Shifts from one system to another, like the 1989 fall of communism in much of Eastern Europe, changed the lives of millions. And while researchers know that a country’s economic system ...

The course will examine the rise, survival and collapse of the Soviet Communist ideology and Communist regimes based in Russia and Eastern Europe during the period 1917-1990. The course will also deal ...