OnChristmas Eve 1979, theSoviet Unionbegan aninvasion of Afghanistan, its Central Asian neighbor to the south. First, it air-dropped elite troops into principal Afghan cities. Soon after, it deployed motorized divisions across the border. Within days, the KGB, which had infiltrated the Afghan pr...
Perhaps Germany doubts that Ukraine can leave behind its post-Soviet past. It is true that, after the Maidan protests established democracy in 2014, the country was unable to slough off its corruption and political inertia. And after being pounded by Russian artillery, Ukraine’s economy will be...
However, the equilibrium can also shift the other way when the inclusive economy overturns the extractive politics. If the benefits generated by the new classes is enough to pay ruling class’s cost of giving up the throne, the extant constitution would be broken through either peaceful reformati...
it becomes clear that one of the most difficult tasks of expeditionary life was not weathering the elements but enduring one’s peers. The 1870 Polaris Expedition to the North Pole fell apart when its pious and imperious commander Charles Hall suffered convulsions (and ultimately died) after drink...
The article expresses the author's opinion about the reasons for the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and ultimately, the end of the Cold War. The author states that during that time world leaders such as the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President George H.W. George were ...
Why Czar Nicholas II and the Romanovs Were Murdered The imperial family fell out of favor with the Russian public long before their execution by Bolsheviks in July 1918. Read more Why the Romanov Family’s Fate Was a Secret Until the Fall of the Soviet Union ...
They called it ‘bugging the battlefield.’ Instead of targeted surveillance – a tiny camera hidden in the office of the Soviet ambassador, the star of the movie around whom the whole plot revolves – here you simply record everything, capture the entire world as data. The surveillance ...
They called it ‘bugging the battlefield.’ Instead of targeted surveillance – a tiny camera hidden in the office of the Soviet ambassador, the star of the movie around whom the whole plot revolves – here you simply record everything, capture the entire world as data. The surveillance ...
action" against Ukraine, he said that attempts to appease the aggressor in 1941 were a mistake, which Russia would not repeat. He said that the Soviet Union "kept trying not to provoke the potential aggressor until the very last moment" and that Russia had "no right" to do...
the Soviet Union could adopt Western technology while forcibly mobilizing resources to implement and utilize such technology. An intense focus on industrialization and urbanization at the expense of personal consumption gave the Soviet Union a period of rapid modernization. However, once the country ...