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Required reading: Russia’s new mandatory history textbook offers a glimpse of the present

Required reading: Russia’s new mandatory history textbook offers a glimpse of the present

The Hague precedent: How Slobodan Milosevic became the first head of state tried by an international tribunal

The Hague precedent: How Slobodan Milosevic became the first head of state tried by an international tribunal

The shah’s gambit: The rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty

The shah’s gambit: The rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty

Raised by the Reich: The lasting scars of a totalitarian childhood

Raised by the Reich: The lasting scars of a totalitarian childhood

A small victorious revolution: How pro-war Russians nearly deposed the monarchy in 1905

A small victorious revolution: How pro-war Russians nearly deposed the monarchy in 1905

Konstantin Gaivoronsky

From perpetual war to integration: Revisiting the Franco-German miracle

From perpetual war to integration: Revisiting the Franco-German miracle

The Nazi factor: How West Germany democratized without fully purging its Hitler-era civil service

The Nazi factor: How West Germany democratized without fully purging its Hitler-era civil service

Stealing for the Soviet Union: How the USSR deployed shadow trade and industrial espionage to circumvent Western sanctions

Stealing for the Soviet Union: How the USSR deployed shadow trade and industrial espionage to circumvent Western sanctions

One hundred years before Prigozhin: How the Bolsheviks nearly fell to to an uprising in Moscow

One hundred years before Prigozhin: How the Bolsheviks nearly fell to to an uprising in Moscow

Konstantin Gaivoronsky

Not quite clean: Why Germany and Japan failed to fully purge their elites after World War II

Not quite clean: Why Germany and Japan failed to fully purge their elites after World War II

Frozen frontline: Lessons learned from the Korean model of conflict termination

Frozen frontline: Lessons learned from the Korean model of conflict termination

Konstantin Gaivoronsky

Democracy to go: The promise and peril of American intervention abroad

Democracy to go: The promise and peril of American intervention abroad

A global kill list: Inside the KGB’s secret retribution operations beyond the Iron Curtain

A global kill list: Inside the KGB’s secret retribution operations beyond the Iron Curtain

Steal of the century. How the West allowed Stalin to Sovietize Poland after World War II

Steal of the century. How the West allowed Stalin to Sovietize Poland after World War II

From trade wars to battlefields: Tariff disputes have ignited some of history's biggest conflicts

From trade wars to battlefields: Tariff disputes have ignited some of history's biggest conflicts

Konstantin Gaivoronsky

There and Back Again: Trans people in the West are losing ground in their struggle for rights

There and Back Again: Trans people in the West are losing ground in their struggle for rights

Rustam Alexander

The Templars of Langley, Virginia: Declassified documents outline the CIA’s quest to find the Ark of the Covenant

The Templars of Langley, Virginia: Declassified documents outline the CIA’s quest to find the Ark of the Covenant

Yuriy Matsarsky

The Lost Army: War veterans could pose a problem for Putin’s Russia, just like they did for interwar Germany

The Lost Army: War veterans could pose a problem for Putin’s Russia, just like they did for interwar Germany

Anton Pavlovich

Diagnosis as denunciation: Kremlin meddling in doctor-patient confidentiality has a long history

Diagnosis as denunciation: Kremlin meddling in doctor-patient confidentiality has a long history

Rustam Alexander

The Struggle for Queer: A look at LGBT activism in the USSR

The Struggle for Queer: A look at LGBT activism in the USSR

Rustam Alexander

Death Camps Inc. How the Syrian dictatorship outsourced the construction of torture prisons to fugitive Nazis

Death Camps Inc. How the Syrian dictatorship outsourced the construction of torture prisons to fugitive Nazis

Yuriy Matsarsky

Polite comrades: How Moscow pioneered the use of “little green men” in Estonia a century ago

Polite comrades: How Moscow pioneered the use of “little green men” in Estonia a century ago

Saladin and the wonderful lamp: Why Iran really believes Israel is using Djinns to fight Hezbollah

Saladin and the wonderful lamp: Why Iran really believes Israel is using Djinns to fight Hezbollah

Yuriy Matsarsky

“I despise your court and I despise your power”: The complete collection of Alexei Navalny's “last words”

“I despise your court and I despise your power”: The complete collection of Alexei Navalny's “last words”

Oleg Pshenichny

Importing hate. The Russian roots of Georgia's homophobia

Importing hate. The Russian roots of Georgia's homophobia

How Iranian Azerbaijan narrowly avoided becoming the USSR's “new territory”: Excerpt from “Iran's Kremlin Agents” by Mikhail Krutikhin

How Iranian Azerbaijan narrowly avoided becoming the USSR's “new territory”: Excerpt from “Iran's Kremlin Agents” by Mikhail Krutikhin

Mikhail Krutikhin

Bland Samaritans: The modern-day descendants of the people that sparked the Arab-Israeli conflict

Bland Samaritans: The modern-day descendants of the people that sparked the Arab-Israeli conflict

Yuriy Matsarsky

Life after deaths: How nations reconcile following bloody conflicts

Life after deaths: How nations reconcile following bloody conflicts

A Tatar gift: On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars

A Tatar gift: On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars

Yuriy Matsarsky

Gallows for a Propagandist: How the Third Reich's chief proponent failed to defend himself in Nuremberg

Gallows for a Propagandist: How the Third Reich's chief proponent failed to defend himself in Nuremberg

Self-prosecution as a national sport. How Stalinism forged ‘self-criticism,’ self-denunciation, and other forms of public apology

Self-prosecution as a national sport. How Stalinism forged ‘self-criticism,’ self-denunciation, and other forms of public apology

“No brother of mine”: Who started the war between ISIS and Iran?

“No brother of mine”: Who started the war between ISIS and Iran?

Yuriy Matsarsky

Devil vs. Advocate: The amazing, if rare, triumphs of legal defense in Stalin's Soviet Union

Devil vs. Advocate: The amazing, if rare, triumphs of legal defense in Stalin's Soviet Union

Faith with trust issues. Why Iran is struggling to consolidate the Islamic world against Israel

Faith with trust issues. Why Iran is struggling to consolidate the Islamic world against Israel

Yuriy Matsarsky

Orthodoxy, autocracy, anti-Semitism. How the Russian Empire endorsed and justified pogroms

Orthodoxy, autocracy, anti-Semitism. How the Russian Empire endorsed and justified pogroms

Revolutionaries without borders: How exiled opposition brought change to their countries

Revolutionaries without borders: How exiled opposition brought change to their countries

Alexander Finiarel

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