Yordanov consulted more than 20 archives across Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Cuba, and the United States, to craft this superbly constructed history of Cold War diplomacy. The evidence he ...

The Soviet Union didn’t collapse because of one single disaster—it unraveled under the weight of economic stagnation, political reform, military strain, and public distrust. Chernobyl exposed the ...

Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister, has said during a parliamentary Q&A session that ...

THE trade strategy of Soviet Russia has been created inevitably as a consequence of two principles basic to the structure of the Communist state -- repudiation of the debts of preceding governments ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the ...

Geopolitical rivalry, intensified by fighting in Ukraine, is amplifying domestic struggles in countries like Georgia and Moldova whose people are split on which side to support. By Andrew Higgins ...

Statues and monuments — from Columbus to Confederates, presidents to priests — are heatedly being removed, defaced or destroyed. Police actions and popular protests have rekindled debates over ...

Much of its gear and training had Soviet fingerprints all over it. The generals watching from Moscow could reasonably believe ...

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...