the relationship between moscow and the peripheral republics of the soviet :union: has been a controversial issue. the complicatedness and implications of this relationship was to a degree recognized during the soviet era. yet it was after the collapse of the communist regime that its real scope and significance were revealed, especially in central asian and caucasian republics where a variety ...

Soviet and American leaders learned during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 that inadequate communication raised perilous risks dangers in nuclear age. The US–Soviet Hotline was cre...

Bearing in mind the character of Yugoslav foreign policy after WWII, as well state Yugoslav-American relations, Yugoslavia rejected to participate Marshall Plan 1947, but at same time, it presented First Five-Year Plan. The Tito-Stalin split 1948 was a significant turning point perception Although generally negative attitude towards still present, absence main economic support from Soviet Union...

The two states that emerged from the defeated Germany were central to the development of the cold war. Rapidly evolving from defeated objects of Four Power policy, the two Germanys became important actors in their own right on the front line of the cold war. Both superpowers initially treated their part of Germany as war booty to be plundered and kept weak, but as the cold war developed, they w...

regulating relations with great powers constitutes one of the most significant issues of each country’s foreign policy. iran, the soviet :union: and later russia have failed to establish strategic relations, despite their efforts to enhance mutual relations since late 1980s. it is believed that iran found it politically expedient to have ties with moscow due to its disputed relations with the w...