According to Dr. Koura, "This research underscores the complexity of Cold War alliances and how smaller states like Czechoslovakia utilized intelligence operations to assert influence. Cyprus ...

But the final straw was the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ... Oleg Gordievsky averted a third world war. That is indeed what he believed, but recent scholarship shows that a pre-emptive ...

In 1967 Czech students began peacefully demonstrating against Novotny’s rule. Novotny asked the Soviet leader, Brezhnev, for help to crackdown on the protests, but Brezhnev refused, and in early ...

The Cold War was a global event, and yet all too often Cold War studies focus on the United ... Europe and Central/South America and include countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, Yugoslavia ...