Before combing through 17 Moments and the Current Digest, I didn’t really have a firm understanding of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. However, I very quickly found out that among the events that took place in the 1970s under Brezhnev’s leadership, the invasion of Afghanistan proved to be a troubling turn of events for the […]
How A Chunk of Metal Pushed the Soviet Union Into A New Era
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In the wake of The Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union needed a leader that would rebuild the state from the remnants that were left when the war ended. Khrushchev was the one who stepped up and seemingly forced himself to step into the role Stalin once occupied. However, he was not keen on taking […]
Stalin: A Deadly Leader
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World War II was a turbulent time in history for Soviet Russia. Coming fresh out of the 1930s, the Soviet people were recovering from mass purges of the Communist Party, and it proved to affect Russia’s entrance into the war. As Fuller notes in his chapter of Russia: A History, the military purges that began in […]
