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Congressmen Charles Wilson with Afghani Mujahideen

Photograph of Congressman Charles Wilson posing on horseback among a group of armed Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War, late 1980's

[Gorbachev beholds a shattered hammer and sickle]

Cartoon shows Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev looking in dismay at a massive stone hammer and sickle, now shattered into many parts. One of a new…

Power, prosperity and social choice: A review

A comparison of US and Soviet military expenditure, 1984-1991

Photos of Ukraine rallies and protests

On January 21, 1990, in support of Ukrainian independence and the aspirations for greater autonomy from the Soviet Union, people joined hands in a…

NSC-Oct-2017

The New Safe Confinement in final position over reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Chernobylreactor 1

The original sarcophagus at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was a temporary, emergency structure built to contain radioactive materials after the…

Caricature of Leonid Brezhnev

Caricature of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev wearing a dark suit and two medals. As a Communist party official and chairman of the Presidium, he…

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to…

Long khanh fallen

SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why?…

A Viet Cong base camp being burned down

Mỹ Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being burned down. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota, C Company, 3rd…