Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

On the night of 19 January the Soviet army occupied the cities of Azerbaijan and an unprecedented massacre took place ...

Thus, the 1979 regime succeeded in blending national and Islamic elements. However, this success does not appear permanent.

ThePrint Explorer looks at the lives of Ames & another double-agent, Major-General Dmitri Polyakov, which offer a peek into ...

Since the Arab world broke away from the Ottoman Empire and appeared on the political stage in the early 20th century, the ...

Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.

This month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is scheduled to announce whether the hands of ...

Most remarkably, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi have introduced the strongman principle to the world’s oldest democracy and ...

There is no opposition capable of igniting change from the inside. The intricate barter system that Cuba and Venezuela ...

Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left in four years. Can the regime, and country, survive the engulfing ‘polycrisis’?

After the past year or so, the famed Doomsday Clock at the University of Chicago might be running a little fast.

For the Russian leader, courting President Trump to secure a favorable resolution in Ukraine, and possibly more, is far more ...