In 1989, the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan after a ten-year losing battle with the Mujahedeen. Two years later, in ...

Although some Russian Orthodox priests have spoken out against “war liturgies,” they don’t all hold the same positions. Some ...

Boris Kagarlitsky's The Long Retreat provides a necessary Marxist analysis of the Soviet tragedy, says Walden Bello ...

The bloc has allowed its most war-crazed members to dictate its Russia policies – and now they want to attack Moscow first ...

You're next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, we took a look at the history of the complex relationship between the nations.

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

Europe’s panicked response to the shift in Washington’s priorities raises a number of intriguing questions, not least why its ...

For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was ...

IBB: In the early 1980s, the Cold War had reached a critical juncture. The arms race between the East and the West was at a ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...