Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.
The first memory Nina Khrushcheva has of her grandfather is from a dinner party, when she was around four or five. He was hosting it at his dacha – a country house in rural Moscow – for the urban ...
A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...