Several key figures travelled to Soviet Russia in its early days to witness the socialist state in action.
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An old Scottish master has revealed its secret after 430 years. What next from art detectives?
If Rosa Luxemburg and her comrades had been successful with their German revolution in 1919, history would most probably have taken a very different course, avoiding the rise of fascism in Europe.
When women are remembered as part of the Communist or any other political tradition it’s often as an afterthought, or as part of the support system of the revolution.
Our fascination with space shows no signs of slowing down, 60 years after the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik.
The effects of President Mugabe’s post-independence security clampdown that led to the murder of between 10 000 and 20 000 Zimbabweans, known as the Matabeleland massacre, continue to be felt.
On September 29 1941, Nazis murdered more than 30,000 Jews in a ravine outside Kiev. Dmitri Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony, Babi Yar, is a damning critique of the Soviet Union’s lack of recognition of the massacre, and a condemnation of Stalinism.
The Russian cyberthreat goes back over three decades, extends into the country’s educational systems and criminal worlds, and shows no signs of letting up.
A scholar of southern politics finds inspiration in an unexpected place.
Stepping back from the current crisis in US-Russia relations, a Soviet expert asks: what’s in store for Russia in the long term, and is a peaceful transition possible when Putin’s gig is up?
A historian takes us beyond the noise in Washington and examines how US and Russian power and interests compare.
For a military battle whose outcome is still hotly contested 30 years later, the impact was so remarkably clear – independence for Namibia, peace for Angola and the death knell for apartheid.
North and South Korea explained in four questions and answers.
A scholar who has profiled the likes of Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin says there is a method to understanding the madness.
As Solzhenitsyn saw it, simple truths are always a threat to totalitarianism.
Russia’s relationship with the West is on a knife edge after the US bombing of Syria. But the ghosts of Cold War past have lessons for today’s political leaders.
The Central European University will challenge a law just passed by the Hungarian parliament that could force the closure of the school founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
The Royal Academy’s two shows allow us to dive into the history of US/Soviet relations at their most vivid.
Americans are shocked Russia meddled in our election. But there are centuries of precedent – and, at times, it’s been the US meddling.
The Lada Niva is 40 years old – and it could just be the best 4x4 ever made.
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Professor, Russian and East European History, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of History, Gonzaga University
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Professor of History at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of History, Clarkson University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
