The Soviet Union hoped to force the Allies to cede control over their parts of the city to the Soviet Union, wrote historian Roger Miller in his book "To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift ...

There are said to be some 4500 such local free markets in the Soviet Union—over a thousand more than the total number of cities and towns. In 1939 they accounted for over 15 per cent of the ...

The city, which after the Soviet era regained ... its population had fallen from half a million to 35,000. In total, the Soviet Union lost an estimated 27 million people in the war with Nazi ...

On an unseasonably cold June afternoon, Minnesota welcomed the Gorbachevs, Mikhail and his wife, Raisa, to the Twin Cities. The greeting followed Mikhail’s morning meeting with President George H.