The Dutch missionary Andrew “Anne” van der Bijl passed away on Sept. 27. Virtually no one knew him by that…
As the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis approaches, we can expect the usual media plaudits for President John…
Washington — Whatever happened to the Russian Army? For that matter, whatever happened to the Russian Air Force or the…
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 By Antony Beevor (Viking, 600 pages, $38) Historians and international relations scholars use the…
One hundred years ago this month, just four years after the end of World War I, the magazine Foreign Affairs…
News that former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91 has produced the expected encomiums from Western media…
When I heard about the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, I sighed. He was one of the final remaining pivotal figures…
Mikhail Gorbachev, a communist to the end, died at 91 on Tuesday. “The Soviet collapse was not Mr. Gorbachev’s goal,…
The judges also acted as jury. Their guilty verdict was inevitable — one of them, I.T. Nikitchenko, declared prior to…
