In thus reversing the course of modern Baltic history, Moscow separated the Baltic countries not only from Western Europe, toward which they had been oriented in international politics, but also from ...

The past 100 years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, but much of present-day Europe is based ... right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 ...

the Soviet forces moved into Germany from the East, replacing Nazi forces in a number of countries in Eastern Europe. The Americans and the British could do nothing about this while Nazi Germany ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s ... and listed in the index as 'HQ US Navy in Europe' — close enough. The map of London, by the way, was accompanied by a booklet with a ...

The 1990s witnessed one of the most dramatic economic transformations in modern times, as the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union abandoned central planning. Initially, output ...