Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” is an inventive study of Russia’s cultural practices and its reigning mythologies ...

Thousands of students from across the Caucasus and Central Asia now study in China, and it seems Beijing is expanding such educational programs every month. In addition, China projects cultural ...

The Spy in the Archive” by Gordon Corera spotlights a KGB archivist whose actions led to the biggest counterintelligence ...

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...

This month we join our colleagues in celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Glückstal Colonies Research Association (GCRA).

From a Georgian seminary student to the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin reshaped the 20th century. This biography traces his rise through the Bolshevik Revolution, his brutal ...

This is not just a book—it’s a ticking bomb disguised as history. Segal possesses the unusual ability of situating the reader ...

Like Oz’s wizard, the glitter of feminism has promised much but is proving to be not only empty but dangerous.' ...

Smallwood died at the age of 77 from complications of kidney failure on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.

Fincke, Cardman, Yui and Platonov launched toward the ISS on Aug. 1, 2025, kicking off SpaceX's Crew-11 mission to the ...

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As Holocaust Remembrance Day nears, two filmmakers warn that silencing uncomfortable truths about the past fuels modern ...