A new book offers a fresh timely look at Leon Trotsky, perpetrator and victim of Soviet communism. Stephen Kotkin, a Stalin ...
On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...
Over three decades, he reported from Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and elsewhere and wrote well-received books based on his ...
Last month, there was an event in Havana to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference, a major ...
With the passing of filmmaker V Sekhar last year, Tamil cinema lost one of its most distinctive voices. Distinctive not because he reinvented cinematic language ...
In December 1887, four months after beginning his studies in law at Kazan University, about 700 kilometres east of Moscow, 17 ...
Norway controls Svalbard, but a treaty grants Russia, China and others access. Now concerns are mounting over President Trump ...
The 28th of May, 1871, marks the end of an episode that shook European society and the whole world—the Commune of Paris. Since then, humanity has been shaken by so much more telling blows and ...
If you’re following any of the news from Minneapolis and seeing the community-organized resistance to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Border Patrol, and police coordinated attacks on ...
'Russian Ladas lie at the side of the road, relics of the country's Soviet past.' ...
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology ...
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She spoke about it and then with ineffable delicacy recited poetry by others, drawing upon a deep reservoir of familiarity with poets past and present. To her, Mir Taqi Mir, Mirza Ghalib, Firaq, ...