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…famous anonymous X-article Kennan suggested a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." The Strategy of Containment found its first application in the Truman Doctrine of 1947, which guaranteed immediate economic…

…as it was during its first fifty-years. The North Atlantic Treaty, drafted on April 4, 1949, never included in its original language that the organization's intent was to thwart Russian attempts to spread communism. It stated the member nations were "determined…

…of State John Hay invited the powers to meet at The Hague. Russia, however, refused to participate in a conference while engaged in hostilities with Japan. After the peace of 1905, the matter was placed in the hands of the Russian government, which had taken…

…of each and every one of Germany's allies. Eventually Germany was left fighting alone, (although the Russians had withdrawn on the allies' side due to the revolution) the entrance of the USA and the strength of the other allied nations became too much…

…of each and every bullet firing from the guns of the Germans. Interestingly, Ambrose' interviews reveal that the Axis fighters were mostly Russian, Polish, Hungarian and some were even of the Orient. Few were of German descent. They came from weak countries…

….         The Marsokhod, which is Russian for "Mars Rover"-- a six-wheeled vehicle about the size of a golf cart, with an arm for carrying a camera or other instruments, is planned to launch in 1998. The rover might actually find the truth that there was once life…

…. Now, most forms of Giselle carry a influence from Diaghilev. Serge Lifar, a former dancer for Diaghilev, danced as Albrecht. (Laurent) Diaghilev only used Russian dancers and choreographers at the beginning of his career, but later allowed people from…

…of the atomic bomb and the Russian declaration of war the following day Japan was ready to consider peace options. Given time they most likely would have complied and the second bomb need never be dropped. The real sealant of Nagasaki's fate was the weather…

…to a depression in Poland. Peter the Great’s Russian empire rested on the marriage of autocracy and the nobility. Peter inherited almost absolute power. He created a Senate and he was the first emperor to give his unlimited power a moral and political definition…

…. Lebezyatnikov, whose name is derived from the Russian word for "fawning," is obsessed with the so-called new philosophies that raged through St. Petersburg during the time that Dostoevsky was writing the novel. Luzhin, a mid-level government official, is continually…