Reading Time: 4 minutes Revisiting the tragic case of KAL 007 amidst Cold War politics
Tag: Soviet Union
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years later
Reading Time: 4 minutes The narrative that emerged of American triumphalism was false. There had been a deal
Mikhail Gorbachev, from global hero to forgotten man
Reading Time: 4 minutes Gorbachev didn’t grasp the depth of resentment in Eastern Europe or within many of the constituent Soviet republics
Understated George Shultz left a lasting legacy
Reading Time: 4 minutes As Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, he played a key role in bringing about the end of the Cold War
Chernobyl disaster’s legacy still resonates
Reading Time: 5 minutes New interest in Chernobyl as the result of an HBO miniseries prompts U of A historian to reflect on 1986 nuclear disaster
Canada’s first political sex scandal was really a dud
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gerda Munsinger, allegedly a low-level Soviet spy, was sexually involved with at least one, and possibly two, cabinet ministers
Harold Macmillan and the fickleness of history
Reading Time: 4 minutes The onetime British PM’s apparent affable, avuncular nature masked a lethal ruthlessness
The unwelcome consequences of the collapse of empires
Reading Time: 3 minutes The demise of the German Hohenzollerns led to Hitler, while the collapse of the Austrian Habsburgs gave rise to malignant nationalism
The abysmal scorecard of socialist revolutions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Real communism has failed repeatedly to provide better living conditions. Why do countries like Venezuela persist?
Ronald Reagan’s remarkable mission to Moscow
Reading Time: 4 minutes The American president’s loathing for nuclear weapons and his desire to see new freedoms in the Soviet Union framed his trip