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18/06/2017 - 12:02

Ukrainian nationals like to say that Russia’s annexation of Crimea and stoking of unrest in eastern Ukraine in 2014 contributed more toward... →

07/06/2017 - 12:45

In October 1924, Sigmund Freud became the first scientist to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Albert Einstein would be accorded the... →

02/06/2017 - 13:51

Many contemporary writings see the 1917 revolution as little more than a German plot. This view is particularly popular now in Russia... →

24/05/2017 - 13:08

The other reason for many of the myths about the period is its association with the Catholic Church. In the English-speaking world these... →

09/05/2017 - 15:12

The Soviet Union lost more than 20 million people in World War II and bore the brunt of the fighting in Europe between 1941 and 1944.... →

09/05/2017 - 14:48

He said the Wehrmacht’s iconic was a marvel of complex engineering, but too liable to failure, with 50 per cent of all Panzer... →

16/04/2017 - 11:06

Compare that with, for example, King Arthur, who supposedly lived around AD500. The major historical source for events of that time does... →

30/03/2017 - 15:26

President Vladimir Putin is the embodiment of nostalgia not so much for Soviet times as for that period’s sacralization of the state, which... →

12/03/2017 - 16:07

They settled in a small resort town, emptied by the war but beginning to fill again with refugees, mostly foreign Jews. In the summer of... →

04/03/2017 - 13:32

As I was growing up in England in the latter half of the 20th century, the concept of intelligence loomed large. It was aspired to, debated... →

27/02/2017 - 19:19

“Ura! Ura! Ura!” I vividly remember the wall of sound as stern, gray-uniformed soldiers met their commander’s greeting: “Congratulations on... →

30/01/2017 - 18:19

In the late 19th century, western imperial Russia was home to nearly 5 million Jews. For generations, life in the shtetls was plagued by... →

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