In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was ...

The T-37A was the Soviet Union’s first mass-produced amphibious tank, designed for reconnaissance and light infantry support. Developed from the T-27 tankette and inspired by British floating tank ...

Hidden for decades, the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan was where the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear and hydrogen ...

The 48-year-old Democrat was arguably the most anti-communist voice in Congress. He had introduced legislation to ban all ...

Even before competing in his first Olympics, 21-year-old Ilia Malinin has transformed the sport of figure skating.

In a 2024 essay The Dragon Amid the Tigers the novelist Amitav Ghosh lamented the hardening of mental barriers, especially in ...

Its title was “The Europeans.” A few respectful reviews aside, and despite a parallel American edition, the book didn’t have much immediate impact — far less than the work Cartier-Bresson had ...

What ICE’s opponents are doing in Minnesota is part of a long and successful historical tradition: dissidence.

The historian Adam Tooze discusses Davos, China and the fading of an old world order. This is an edited transcript of “The ...

The Ukraine stall is also portraying determination in the face of Russian aggression by putting up a map that includes disputed areas ...

In the Lithuania that existed before the Second World War, a young veterinarian named Ksaveras Masanauskas was a lieutenant-colonel in the independent nation’s army. Then Adolf Hitler and ­Joseph ...

Thirty years ago this week, on an island in the South Pacific, France conducted its final nuclear test – ending a programme that exposed thousands of people to radiation over decades. The islands of ...