In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...

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

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost ... on Jan. 30, 1937. During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he learned the rules of chess before he learned ...

But was it really the best tank of the war? Find out why this Soviet war machine became unstoppable ... in one night Is it true that … eating late at night causes weight gain?

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

An executive order issued late last week has halted US funding for independent news organizations worldwide. Outlets like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia began in response to ...

Families across the country are learning information about their relatives with the release of the files about the ...

Before hitting their stride with compelling stories in the early 2000s, the '90s saw remarkable war shows that greatly stood ...

By the time Kennan became charge d’affaires in Moscow in early 1946, the war-time alliance was fraying and Western relations ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...