The Nation4d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
Queen Elizabeth Wasn’t Immediately Told Her Art Adviser Was a Soviet Spy
British secret intelligence did not tell Queen Elizabeth II that her royal art adviser confessed to spying for the Soviet ...
Foreign Affairs2d
How Artificial Intelligence Will Remake Espionage
In the early 1950s, the United States faced a critical intelligence challenge in its burgeoning competition with the Soviet ...
The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
Wilson Center2d
Putin’s 2025 New Year’s Address—And an Anniversary Forgotten
Nevertheless, Putin’s New Year’s message remained upbeat. He looked ahead to the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Soviet ...
Foreign Affairs13d
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...
A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe
Still, the official announcement declined to use the word war to characterize Moscow’s activities outside Ukraine. Instead, ...
Armenian government approves bill to launch EU accession bid
Armenia's government on Thursday gave approval to a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet Union, to launch ...