Aldrich Ames betrayed the CIA by selling American secrets to the Soviet Union and Russia, resulting in the deaths of at least ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of ...

Despite its impressive nature, the Lira-class was in no real way a strategic game-changer for the Soviets in their bid to defeat the West—and its costs were immense. During the Cold War, many radical ...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Art Canons and the Cold War -- Part One: Painting by Marxism: American Art in Soviet Reflection -- Chapter 1 The Ugly Shapes of ...