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A Brief History of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
The idea of a communist Hungary is usually associated with the Cold War that arose post-World War II. Hungary, however, had a ...
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The desire for reform and domestic pressures
After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...
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Gorbachev: Conflicted Catalyst of Cold War’s End
He quickly disassociated himself from Moscow-inspired violence against Georgia and the Baltic states as the Soviet Union started to unravel. More important, he recoiled from using force to ...
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Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?
He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of ... History's most savage and devastating war A timeline of the most destructive ...
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History of relations of Soviet Union, Russia with African countries
An important aspect of Soviet-African cooperation was economic and technical assistance, loans and staff training programs arranged for African countries. The Soviet Union signed agreements on ...