Matzah was once a forbidden food in the Soviet Union. To commemorate Passover, Olga Alterman’s grandparents would smuggle ...

The display includes confessions and surveillance reports relating to Britain’s most notorious double agents, who spied for ...

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

Many of these countries were primarily encouraged/forced to make off-dry and fortified wine for Russia and the ex-Soviet ...

The upcoming summit in Samarkand will be truly historic as it will bring together for the first time the leaders of the five ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...

Why did it take Europe so long to kick-start its entrepreneurial streak? And what changed to allow the continent’s founder ...

Last February, a Ukrainian company commander going by his callsign Veter was ordered to send his people to reinforce another ...

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.

In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.

Wünsdorf, a town nicknamed ‘Little Moscow’ during the Cold War because of its gigantic Soviet base, reflects the strong ...