The last blow by the Soviet hard liners, we thought, and how wrong we were. August 19, 1991 saw the beginning of the attempted coup  by o...

One cannot live by Brexit alone. There will be postings on other subjects. I have decided to start a new thread - books I have been readin...

... the old Russian problems and that is no coincidence, as the old Communist orators led by Stalin would have said. In the last few month...

As we approach March 5, the presumed anniversary of Stalin's death (it was announced on that day but that means little) it may be a g...

Today is the anniversary of the death of one of the greatest fighters for freedom, Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov (1921 - 1989), finally ...

Norman M. Naimark, Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and author of several important books on the darker aspects of ...

One of the books I have been reading as a form of .... ahem .... relaxation is Tim Tzouliadis's The Forsaken , the painful, indeed horri...