The list of names ranges from the most high-profile — Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin —to the more obscure such as Festus ...

Party General Secretary To Lam met with exemplary veteran revolutionaries, war heroes, and policy beneficiaries from Northern ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

Columbia University has been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. Rudi Von Briel/Photodisc via Getty Images ...

Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades. In that era ...

Keywords Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, communism, Warsaw Pact, liberalization, nationalism, Cold War, reform, peaceful coexistence, Iron Curtain Vatican reveals official cause of death of Pope ...

including his debut match in 1974 against the Soviet Union Republic of Ireland players, from left to right, captain John Giles, Steve Heighway and Liam Brady on his senior international debut in ...

The Soviet Union does not conceal its expenditures for defense, because all mankind knows of the peaceable character of the Soviet Government. -"Finansy S.S.S.R." ("Finance of the U.S.S.R.," a ...

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