Neither was it the political strategies to defend Western Europe. Rather, over 100 representatives came together to talk about the state of civil science in the Eastern Bloc. The gathering was a ...

Six months have passed since Warsaw Pact tanks rumbled into Czechoslovakia, but Communism’s East Bloc still remains uneasy and uncertain. Like Western Europe, Eastern Europe is pulling apart.

After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly ...