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Nikita Khrushchev at the UNGA, 1962.

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich

1894- 1971

Leonid Brezhnev, 1974.

Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich

1906- 1982

Andrei Gromyko at the UN, 1981

Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich

1909- 1989

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Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich

1890- 1986

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Malenkov, Georgii Maksimilianovich

1901- 1988

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Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich

1914- 1984

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

East Asia

China

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Pyongyang photographed in March 20212

East Asia

North Korea

Photograph of Azadi Tower

Middle East

Iran

Soviet Foreign Policy

September 1980 crisis in Poland

1980-81 Polish Crisis

Afghan resistance fighters return to a village destroyed by Soviet forces

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Iran's Tudeh Party

Sino-Soviet Relations

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

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December 27, 1979	Message to Soviet Ambassadors on the Invasion of Afghanistan, Attachment to CPSU Politburo Decree #177 The violent actions by the DRA, led by H. Amin, to de-stabilize the Afghan government, dissolving the gains made in the April Revolution, causes the Soviet Union to place military detachments in Afghanistan.
June 24, 1957	Minutes of the Meeting of the CPSU CC Plenum on the State of Soviet Foreign Policy The Soviet leadership discusses the state of Soviet foreign policy after the Hungarian crisis and Khrushchev’s visit to the US. Molotov criticizes Khrushchev for recklessness in foreign policy direction. Soviet inroads in the Middle East and the Third World are analyzed. The effects of the crises in Eastern Europe are placed in the context of the struggle against US imperialism.
March 5, 1953	CPSU CC Protocol, 'Record of Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the CPSU Central Committee Plenum, the Council of Ministers of the Union of the SSR, and the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR' This protocol concerns the meeting of the CPSU Presidium & Soviet Council of Ministers as Stalin was about to die.
December 10, 1981	Session of the CPSU CC Politburo The Soviet Politburo discusses the Polish Solidarity movement and the possibility of imposing martial law in Poland to restore order and the communist party's authority.
February 28, 1968	Note from P. Shelest to CPSU Central Committee A note from P. Shelest to the CC CSPU regarding a suspicious incident relating to Czechoslovak unrest.

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