From a Leftist perspective, Aijaz Ahmad succinctly concluded, “Khomeini’s takeover was one of those rare conjunctures in which the revolution and the counter-revolution were condensed in the same ...

The assault on the television centre in January 1991 definitively ruined the plans for perestroika, also giving Gorbachev the reputation of a dictator and persecutor of the freedom of people ...

The Soviet Union was Cuba’s benefactor for decades. Venezuela took up the slack, and Mexico has supplied “humanitarian aid.” ...

In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there ...

Trump is playing an old geopolitical game on a relatively new playground: only, he is a better showman and entertainer ...

Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly ...

BERLIN - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms emphasizing change and openness helped lead to the fall of Communism, says he sees today's protests in Egypt as "well-grounded and of ...

Africa is like a beautiful damsel any good gentleman can seek to court by all means because Africa is beautiful in various ...

Contributors from Taiwan and the mainland examined the touchy issue of relations between the two. The recent earthquake that devastated many areas of Taiwan prompted international messages of sympathy ...

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

NEW DELHI- Rajiv Gandhi was Prime Minister then testing the political waters after his stint as a pilot soon after his mother Indira Gandhi’s brutal assassination in 1984 when she returned to power ...