He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

The Il-28 bomber saw extensive wartime service across the globe. Deployed by over 20 nations, it fought in the Biafran and ...

The White House too often exaggerates or ignores the real degrees of danger posed by perceived major threats of the time.

The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.” ...

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“Policymakers and force planners should take Xi’s top-to-bottom purge of the officer corps as a sign of his impatience with ...