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Long Islanders with Soviet roots hold fast to tradition of 'New Year's tree'
and memorabilia bought on family trips to Texas, New Orleans and Disneyland. The Gluzmans practice the tradition rooted in the former Soviet Union of putting up a "yolka," an evergreen tree ...
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Jimmy Carter’s lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle the Soviet Union
By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union’s economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these ...
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Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962
To set the stage, a cold war of hostilities between the U.S. and the communist Soviet Union began almost immediately following World War II, resulting in a nuclear arms race between the two during ...
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McWilliams Scholarship for Study of the Former Soviet Union
The Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies offers competitive scholarships ranging from $500-1,500 to be used for the study of Russian language and culture, professional development or research ...