In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

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A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story ...

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Newspaper headlines provide a snapshot of our turbulent times as old certainties are being quickly swept away ...

Contemporary Russian politics — much like during the reign of Emperor Alexander III — has no need for intellectual manifestos. The role of ideologists is largely to retroactively justify ...

I left Russia as the country slid into authoritarianism and arrived in Canada knowing no one. In its novels, I found a ...

A survey of more than 500 political scientists found that they believe the United States is headed towards authoritarian rule ...

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Russia sees the Israel–Iran war as both a strategic distraction and a dangerous gamble, boosting oil profits and diverting ...