He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

A hidden war began long before armies faced each other. Early CIA missions, Soviet pressure through the Cominform, and covert action in cities like Berlin and Rome turned espionage into the first ...

When the 105-day war ended, almost 400,000 Soviet soldiers had been killed or wounded or were missing. The Kremlin reported minor losses. Vladimir Putin, a Stalin admirer, should have studied the ...

Enver Hoxha ruled Albania from 1944 to 1985, transforming the small Balkan nation into one of the most isolated and ...

Vice President JD Vance met with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan this week to finalize President Donald Trump’s “historic” peace deal between the two nations and secure agreements with the two ...

“Policymakers and force planners should take Xi’s top-to-bottom purge of the officer corps as a sign of his impatience with ...

For seven decades, Pakistan has repeatedly offered itself as America's strategic pawn, only to be discarded when no longer ...

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” provides a unique window into the mindset that Vladimir Putin’s Russia has generated.

What causes a people to accept poverty as normal? What conditions lead citizens to surrender their rights in exchange for mere survival? Why does an entire generation yield its will to the ...

Frank Dikötter dismantles CCP myths about Mao’s leadership to tell a story of Chinese repression that is still relevant today ...

For Finns, the sauna is sacred. “It’s where children were baptized, and the dead washed for burial,” Alexander Lembke, our ...