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eading Republicans, including presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. But by the time

MOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians In May 2014, Putin signed a new law that criminalized the purposeful distortion of the Soviet Union's role in World War II. It could easily be applied to historians who, for example, criticize Stalin's Great Terror and its decimation of the militar

e, U.S. President Richard Nixon declared Khrushchev "the most brilliant world leader" he had ever met, because he "scared the hell out of people." Nixon embraced his own variant of the madman theory during the Vietnam War, when he ratcheted up nuclear alert levels to coerce the Soviets and their Nor

ith Soviet subsidies, and stem any risk of contagion within the Soviet bloc, which proved an immense economic burden that eventually contributed to the Soviet Union's final economic crisis. In Putin's case, as in Khrushchev's, short-term gains could boomerang into long-term disasters. CYNTHIA A. ROBERTS teaches

"realpolitik" is the path U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration took after the Greek military c

vil war. But he still has a few friends in low places. The Iranians aren't giving up on him, and in Moscow Vladimir Putin won't abandon the son of the Soviet Union's favorite Arab tyrant, Hafez Assad. Far from it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week rejected any talk of new U.N. sanctions or arms em