A study of Russian-American relations during the time of the Alaska purchase, giving an explanation of the agreement and its role in the history of the two coun

A detailed study of the events leading up to the sale of Alaska to the United States.

The Alaska Purchase—denounced at the time as “Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke—is well known in American history. But few know the rest

Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly in

Drawing upon more than two decades of research in secondary and documentary publications as well as archival materials from the United States, the Soviet Union,