Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to ...

A Stalinist who denounced Leon Trotsky as an “agent of the Gestapo” was shielded from criticism by SWP speakers.

Turkmenistan has long been considered one of the globe’s most isolated countries. New streamlined visa regulations are ...

The influential Columbia University professor and Palestinian political activist, Edward Said, characterized Israel’s founding as a manifestation of Western imperialism.

The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

Avner Landes discusses his new book 'The Delegation,' an account of the adventures - and dark fates - of an actor and poet ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind closed doors. A look back at the Politburo – an opaque, feared body that ran an ...

Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris ...