Despite its impressive nature, the Lira-class was in no real way a strategic game-changer for the Soviets in their bid to ...

This imitation of Japan’s exchange-rate policy has seen many other countries’ central banks amass “war chests” of dollar ...

Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among the greatest Russian writers, will be long read and remembered, but not as a social and ...

The question of war shaped the programme of the book fair. On the one hand, warmongers were given a stage for their great ...

This bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of what Russians refer to as ...

The making of Tetris, as the tagline to the Apple Original movie goes, is a “story you couldn’t make up”, and now the ...

His books include Winning Space ... during a time in which the United States and Soviet Union not only vied for dominance on Earth, but in the strategic high ground of space as well.

Like many who lived in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, I have a personal relationship with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whom I never met. It is one of boundless admiration. As a college student in ...

In the 1975 book “The Abuse of Learning ... universities and use them to advance its ideological agenda. In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped ...

Historians consider Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War, one of the era’s most important informants.

After Hitler’s invasion of Russia, and then following Pearl Harbour, the great alliance – which in the end would defeat the ...