Can anyone balance America’s books?

Will Hitler conspiracies ever die?

Nazi Germany

Blame the Soviets for them

Luke Daly-Groves

Putin shares the Soviet dictator’s hatred of the West

Robert Service

Why should we want to read yet another book about the collapse of the Soviet empire? In To Run the World, Sergey Radchenko attempts an answer

Rodric Braithwaite

Is the suggestion that the infamous SMERSH counterintelligence unit has been revived simply a way to troll the West?

Mark Galeotti

Russia

Putin’s version of history is neither original nor uncommon. On the contrary, it is shared by very many Russians

Rodric Braithwaite

Russia
March 19, 2022
Putin has revived the cruelty of the Soviet regime
Putin’s Russia is not Stalin’s USSR but there is an uncanny resemblance
Sergey Radchenko
Russia
March 3, 2022
Putin’s Stalinist playbook
The Russian leader has eschewed Lenin in favor of a more familiar figure
Slavoj Zizek
Book Review
February 5, 2022
Stalin the intellectual: the dictator cast in a new light
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and his Books by Geoffrey Roberts reviewed
Nigel Jones
Book Review
August 22, 2019
Novel explosives of the Cold War
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White reviewed
Nicholas Shakespeare