America's transformation under President Donald Trump has parallels with Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the last years of the ...

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Dr Greg Mills met Professor Brown, the author most recently of The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War at Oxford’s Grand Café.

Was the end of the USSR inevitable — or the result of human decisions? This video dissects the economic decay, political paralysis, and personal choices that brought down one of history’s superpowers.

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin allegedly believed it would be over in a fortnight. Three years on, the Russian president is showing no signs of weakening his assault on ...

Here is question that few people have posed or even considered. What will be the fate of Russia after the war in Ukraine ends ...

The centenary of Margaret Thatcher's birth highlights her diplomatic legacy with Ronald Reagan and the importance of civility ...

Sir Keir Starmer has earned plaudits for building a constructive, even a friendly relationship with Donald Trump. Supporters ...

Throughout his second term, President Trump has campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize. The president, his allies and Israeli ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...