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Reports on the declaration made by the Soviet Union to end the cold war. Possibility of the end of the cold war in Western terms; Transformation of the political system of the country; Prediction that as the cold war draws to an end, the world will evolve into a multipolar system with five centers of power.

Focuses on the views of George Kennan, U.S. diplomat and historian, regarding the Cold War. Wish of Kennan to reopen an old debate about the nature of the Soviet power and about the intentions of the Soviet leadership; Analogies drawn by Kennan between the current intentions and behavior of Soviet leaders and those of Nazis; Flaw in Kennan's argument that among his real opponents today there are many who share his own assessment of the Soviets' motives but who draw far different conclusions.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of October 31, 1971. Renewed concern over missile research and arms build-up between the Soviet Union and the U.S. is discussed. Problems of compliance with the federal price-freeze are described. The state of legal civil rights enforcement regarding equal opportunity employment is analyzed.

The article presents news briefs and commentary concerning international and U.S. politics as of the week of September 18, 1961. The tense foreign relations between the Soviet Union and the United States are discussed, highlighting the issues of weapons testing and preemptive actions out of fear. Efforts of peace talks hoping to end the Algerian colonial war from France are explored. The appointment of George D. Woods to the U.S. government position of Foreign Aid Director is announced.

The article presents news briefs and commentary on international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of July 3, 1961. Negotiations and relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over government in divided Germany are analyzed. The personnel profile of the members of the Central Intelligence Agency is discussed. Evidences pointing towards a possible famine in China are presented.

The article presents news briefs and commentary on international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of June 19, 1961. The reformation of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the wake of several failures in international affairs is discussed. The U.S.-Soviet relations over the possible reunification of Germany are explored. The need of government provision for Cuban refugees after the failed invasion in April is reviewed.

Explores the possible reasons behind the move of the Soviet government to secretly install nuclear missiles in Cuba during the Cold War. Claims of writer Seymour Hersh on the action of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy with regards the Cuban missile crisis; Explanation given by Soviet leader Sergei Kruschev on the reasons for placing nuclear weapons close to the U.S.; Details of the events that led to the second Berlin crisis which was of besetting concern to both the U.S. and Soviet government; Items included in the Soviet proposal for a treaty.

Comments on factors that led to the dissolution of the Cold War and suggests that the West did not win, rather it was the Soviet Union that lost the war. Extent to which American foreign policy has contributed to the mellowing of the Soviet Union; Occasional failures of containment that doomed the Soviet Union; Lapses in the country's bureaucratic and economic system; Flaws in Soviet ideology; Impact of an increase in the cost of maintaining the Soviet empire on the nation's stability; Discrepancies in the Soviet communist form of government.

Assesses foreign relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Paradox pointed to by the deliberate Soviet policy of driving U.S.-Soviet relations to their lowest point in their history; Soviet walkout from arms control talks and boycott of the Olympics; Implications on international relations and world politics.

Presents letters to the editor concerning articles about threats of nuclear attack on U.S. during the cold war period. Measures of precaution to counter the nuclear attack on the U.S. by Soviet Union; Effects of unilateral disarmament on the U.S.; Issues related to balance of power between the Soviet Union and U.S.; Soviet Union's refusal to symmetrical arms control proposals while continuing aggressive build-up of nuclear power since the 1960s.

Focuses on the proposal for the military disengagement in Central Europe. Proposal for a mutual withdrawal of Soviet forces behind Soviet frontiers and the U.S. forces from Europe. Belief of the people that world peace depended on the balance of mutual terror; Local war of three non-Communist governments against the Soviet Union, with the help of Allies; Assumption underlying current Western policy in Europe is that America will respond by massive thermonuclear retaliation to any major Soviet attack; Factors responsible for the decline of communism in the Soviet Union; Statement that the Soviet control of Eastern Europe depends on the presence of the Red Army; Role of the military disengagement in Europe, on Cold War, going on among the nations. INSET: "DISENGAGEMENT".

This article focuses on the recent anti-American propaganda in the Soviet Union and its consequences, specially in context of the Korean situation. The Korean situation, which involves both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, gives special emphasis to one aspect of life inside the Soviet Union. Both adversaries in the cold war have long been waging propaganda campaigns against each other. The first hint of this new propaganda drive against the U.S. was contained in the August 14, 1946, decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which was aimed at correcting certain abuses of literary magazines and writers. In the literature context, one of the stereotypes of criticism directed against those unfortunate Soviet "homeless cosmopolitans," the particular villains among the intellectuals in the new ideological shift, is precisely that they have succumbed to American influences.

Focuses on the required changes in the U.S. policy after the Soviet Union has developed the atom bomb. Discussion on whether the Atlantic Pact would be able to deter the Soviet Union from waging a war against the European countries; Assumption on the response of the U.S. to these developments; Deliberation on developing an effective method of international control of atomic energy; Discussion on the U.S. refusal of a reduction in its armaments; View that the U.S. should be prepared to neutralize Western Europe in the cold war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Deliberation on the type of atomic-energy control that may be acceptable to the Soviet Union.

The article discusses various issues related with the Cold War. Instead of pushing Marxism aside as irrelevant and treating the Soviet Union as though she were merely another nation state or empire, the U.S. are inclined to accept the Soviet account of the relationship between Communism and capitalism at its face value. Reacting against Soviet Union's methods of power politics, the Americans are beginning to base their own policy on the Leninist assumption that the aim of negotiation is to achieve a tactical advantage over the enemy. Up to 1947, the Soviet Union waged ideological war against the U.S. while the U.S. continued to treat them as though they were not doing so. Now both sides are active and this fact is described as the Cold War.

Claims that newly released Soviet Union documents reveal that former United States President Ronald Reagan's main contribution to ending the Cold War was his willingness to make peace with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Refutation of the claim that the U.S. military build-up, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and U.S. military assistance to anti-communist insurgents under Reagan brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union; Emergence of Reagan as a peacemaker and a supporter of nuclear disarmament; Claim that Gorbachev's goals of reforming the Soviet Union and ending the confrontation with the United States were initially frustrated by the Reagan administration's hawkish actions; Account of Reagan's meetings with Gorbachev, which led to an agreement to eliminate intermediate-range missiles; Discussion of how Gorbachev used his stature as a peace negotiator to push through domestic reforms; Argument that Americans should celebrate Reagan as a peacemaker, not as a cold warrior.

Focuses on the uncertainty following the installation of medium range missiles by the Soviet Union Speculations regarding the intentions of the Soviet Union behind the installation; Hindrance created by the formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) when it comes to the Soviet policy regarding Europe; Overview of events after the Second World War that led to the formation of NATO; Political developments in Europe in protest of the existence of NATO; Insight into some of the facts regarding the ongoing cold war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Presents letters to the editor on articles and topics regarding the politics and government of the U.S. Comment on the article "The Real Paul Warnke," published in the March 26, 1977 issue of the journal on political rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union regarding their nuclear weapons program; Possibility of socialism in the U.S. as mentioned in Henry Fairlie's "Passionate Rediscovery of American Socialism."

The article focuses on the relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union. In three months, the atmosphere of Soviet-American relations has returned to those halcyon World War II days of 15 years ago. Or so it seems in Moscow. The Communists would like to forget the Cold War ever took place. They want a "peaceful coexistence" which confirms their postwar advance into Eastern Europe. Political settlements are desirable but not immediately essential, so long as relaxation is obtained. The problem which every American faces in Moscow--and not only in Moscow--is how to react to this change.

Presents a proposal for disengagement from the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Suggestion that the creation of a disengaged zone in Central Europe would not seem to lessen the arms burden, unless this step results eventually in disarmament; Assessment of the burdens and dangers of cold war, in leading to economic ruin and political collapse in the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Role of the plan in removing a highly unstable situation in which, in the event of uprising in East Germany, military conflict might suddenly flare up and end in a thermonuclear war of destruction.

The article focuses on the issue of Cold War between Soviet Union and the United States. The problem for the free world posed by the extraordinarily rapid rate of economic growth in the Soviet Union. Cold War is likely to be lost by the West the Soviets continue to demonstrate a capacity for rapid economic growth than the free world. The United States has now, and will increasingly have as each year goes by, all of the economic power it could possibly use to create all the deterrent military power it could possibly need. It makes not the slightest difference if a nation has 120 million tons of steel capacity or 150 million tons if it takes only 5 million tons to produce the necessary military weaponry.

Presents views pertaining to Russian life after the death of former Russian leader Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. Suggestion to improve various aspects of Russian life; Information that house are going up and their architecture has been simple and sensible; Changes in painting and art style of Russians; Appreciation for artists and art connoisseurs of Russia; Connection between Russian life and changes in international situation; Benefit for the Russian motion picture industry due to cultural cooperation with foreign countries; Relationship between the Cold War and cultural isolation of Russia.

Focuses on the new Soviet policy of direct intervention in Germany and in Western Europe. Consolidation of the situation in favor the Soviet Union both in China and East European countries; Discussion on the reasons behind the new Soviet policy; Importance of West European countries in the cold war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; View that the close relationship between Great Britain and the U.S. has raised a sense of threat in other European countries; U.S. policy of considering Western Europe as a factor in its policy of containment of the Soviet Union; Assumption on the response of Great Britain and the U.S. to the new Soviet policy.

Presents various policies underlying the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Paris, France. Monopoly of Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. on the political and economic policies of the U.S.; Analysis of an economic arrangement of the U.S. with the Soviet Union; Reflections on the relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the context of the cold war; Conclusions that can be drawn from the meeting; Onus of future economic cooperation between the West and the East on Soviet Union and the U.S.

Focuses on the finality of the cold war between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Distinction of democracy and totalitarianism; Collapse of communism; Assessment of the American foreign policy; View that for American foreign policy, cold war is the most plastic hour since the end of the Second World War; Views on the American diplomacy; Information on the Soviet reduction in conventional forces and strategic nuclear weapons.

Discusses the effect of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision for closing the moratorium on nuclear bomb explosion. Possibility for break in the ice-jam of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Problem for Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev due to Eisenhower's move on nuclear policy; Assessment of Kruschev's relations with China; Speculation about Kruschev's reaction to Eisenhower's decision; Consequences of Eisenhower's decision regarding warmonger image of the U.S. public.

Encourages U.S. President John F. Kennedy to confine the summit meeting with Soviet Union Premier Nikita Krushchev to collateral issues that can be settled or adjusted without touching the basic question on aggression against any peaceably-disposed nation. Importance of setting purpose in any talks; Views that Kennedy can bind his successor to any pledge of non-aggression.

Discusses diplomatic relations of the U.S. with the Soviet Union. Efforts of the U.S. to negotiate with Soviet Union premier Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev on the settlement of Cold War; Issues related to the U.S. foreign policy.

This article focuses on the cold war going between the United States, Europe and Soviet Union. With or without hope, most Western Europeans are convinced nevertheless that this period, short or long, cannot be merely negative and static; first because it's quite definitely time for a change; second because there's the growing impression that though the official Russian and American political refrains continue to run in old, familiar grooves, changes deep, serious, even momentous changes are already taking place in the plans both of Moscow and Washington.