Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...
It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...
When it comes to the spy agency and Iran, there is always far more than meets the eye. The IDF and Israel in the public ...
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Why the Soviet Union came apart from within

The Soviet Union’s collapse was the result of long-term internal pressures rather than a sudden defeat. This video explores ...
As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...
Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.
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Washington will allow Mexico to continue its oil shipments to Cuba for now. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...
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Aldrich Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency spy who was sentenced to life in prison for selling secrets to Moscow, costing ...
In a series of conversations with POLITICO, Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah, shared his blueprint for replacing Ayatollah ...
Aldrich Ames, ex-head of the CIA’s Soviet counterintelligence, betrayed dozens of Russian agents spying for the US by ...