The partial opening of East-bloc archives has sparked renewed interest in the study of
ideological influences in Soviet foreign policy. The task of weighing the relative importance …

IN THE MID-1980s, JUST BEFORE MIKHAIL GORBACHEV became General Secretary of
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the East–West divide in Europe seemed …

This second part of a two-part article moves ahead in showing how the East German Ministry
for State Security (Stasi) came to play a key role in the disinformation campaign launched by …

Abstract In 1986, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a US nongovernmental
organization, began an unprecedented collaboration with the Soviet Academy of Sciences …

Russian domestic politics has long been both labyrinthine and pragmatic, at once both
inordinately complex and breathtakingly dynamic. The same can be said of Russia's foreign …

The transformation of Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev era was truly seismic in
nature. Re-evaluations were effected in all areas of policy, resulting, most visibly, in the …

Schon einmal, am 4. November 1999, hatte ich ihn in Moskau im Rahmen einer
wissenschaftlichen Beratung für das Zweite Deutsche Fernsehen interviewt, in deren Verlauf …

ABSTRACT During the Cold War, Sharaf Rashidov became a representative of the Soviet
anti-imperialist agenda, a key interlocutor with Third World leaders and a promoter of …

This is a study of British communists during the two world wars of the Twentieth century. 1
Both periods have been the object of study, but the links between them remain largely …

This article reexamines the economic and strategic aspects of Soviet-Egyptian relations in
the mid-1960s based on recently declassified documents from Russian archives and …