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 ...

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...

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 ...