A bespectacled and serious-looking young man is pictured standing, pistol in his right hand, pointing directly at the head of a Jewish man he is about to murder. He is photographed perched on the edge ...

Aside from the incredible amount of deaths during the Communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union, an often overlooked key aspect of Soviet policy was the war against religion, the persecution of ...

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Andrey Vlasov was one of the most senior commanders to defect to Nazi Germany. Andrey Vlasov was a Lieutenant General of the Soviet Union's Red Army. During the Second World War, he was given command ...

NARVA, Estonia — On both sides of the Narva River, fishermen stand knee-deep in the water between two medieval castles just 101 meters apart. Above them, the flags mark where NATO ends and Russia ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a state visit to Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a series of meetings with leaders of other nations that once were part of the Soviet Union.

During the 1940s Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter, Viennese exiles all, offered a robust critique of totalitarianism and collectivism, advocating for liberal democracy and market ...

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar ...

History was made at the White House on August 8, 2025, when President Donald Trump hosted Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for a landmark meeting. Against ...

As a CFR fellow of more than twenty years, Max Boot has traced the ups and downs of American foreign policy. He chatted with CFR about how his career burgeoned from a love of history and the ...

As Romania began reclaiming its national identity following the fall of communism, its cities grew, whereas its smaller towns shrank. Like in other parts of the world, Romania’s development has ...