But it was the 1962 October Missile Crisis that most firmly impressed the significance of the Soviet-Cuban alliance upon the consciousness of the United States and the world. The deployment ...

The botched invasion had the opposite of its intended effect, and Castro ended up emboldened to publicly announced a path toward socialism and strengthen Cuba's alliance with the Soviet Union.

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Naval War College Review Vol. 28, No. 3, Winter 1976 THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND SOVIET NAVA... Since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Soviet Navy ...

A Fourth Wave: Balseros The Soviet Union's 1991 collapse took the bottom out of an already ailing Cuban economy. Within three years the economy shrunk by 40%. For the first time there were riots ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

At the end of Mikoyan's visit, the Soviets agreed to buy Cuban sugar in exchange for Soviet oil. The United States, already concerned with Castro's anti-American rhetoric, saw the agreement as a ...

After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Fidel Castro pursued an alliance with the Soviet Union, which many U.S. policymakers viewed as a fundamental betrayal of the Monroe Doctrine. As a result ...

Cuba adopted a new tax code this week and said it would loosen regulations on some state companies while turning others into cooperatives, as one of the world's last Soviet-style economies moves ...

The Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1954-1962; Indochina Wars: From the French Indochina War to the Eve of American Intervention; Eastern Europe from 1953 to the Aftermath of the 1956 Revolutions; The Berlin ...