2) Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Soviet politician who was president of the USSR from 1965 to 1977, when he was displaced by Leonid Brezhnev....

3) Eastern Europe. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991....

4) Harriman, (William) Averell. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...financier and diplomat who held a number of public offices, including ambassador to the USSR (1943-1946) and U.S. secretary of commerce (1946-1948)....

5) Newly Independent States. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...abbr. NIS The countries that until 1991 were constituent republics of the USSR, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,...

6) Lenin, Vladimir Ilich. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...founder of the Bolsheviks, leader of the Russian Revolution (1917), and first head of the USSR (1917-1924). As a communist theoretician Lenin held that workers could...

7) Tito, Marshal. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...the resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II, established independence from the USSR (1948), and as president (1953-1980) pursued a national Communism that...

8) Dulles, John Foster. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...who as U.S. secretary of state (1953-1959) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR largely through military and economic aid to American allies....

9) Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...who was general secretary of the Communist party from 1985-1991 and president of the USSR from 1989-1991, ushering in an era of unprecedented glasnost and perestroika....

10) Kennan, George Frost. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...the policy of containment toward Soviet aggression. He served as U.S. ambassador to the USSR (1952) and Yugoslavia (1961-1963). His written works include American...