In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

There were a number of reasons why the Soviet Union and the USA became interested in lessening tensions in the 1960s and 1970s: President Nixon was keen to improve relations with China as well as ...

By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union's economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

Nudel, an accountant, began her activism in the 1970s after her request to emigrate ... Fonda met with Nudel in the Soviet Union and was in Israel in 1987 when Nudel arrived to a hero’s welcome ...