Nikita Khrushchev

Russia has become an ally in a global movement.

Learning the right lessons of the past.

A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.

The forgotten history of Soviet-American vaccine diplomacy.

History offers a guide for why the American project in Afghanistan went wrong — and for the future of foreign engagement in the country.

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.

Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.

Many of the Communists who felt destined for a life of radicalism experienced their lives as irradiated by a kind of expressiveness that made them feel centered.

When poetry met power in January, 1961.

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

2016 was not the first election in which a foreign power tried to interfere – Nazis and Soviets tried it too.

But they've always been risky.

Physicist and writer Leo Szilard was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. He also did everything he could to prevent its use.

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.

Fifty years ago, 160 young Americans defied State Department orders and partied on the streets of Moscow. The Cold War would never be the same.

What to know before equating "fire and fury" to the "rain of ruin."

Red-baiters deserve at least part of the blame for the shortage of affordable, high-quality pre-K.

Kennedy had his own secret back channel with Moscow. It may have kept the superpowers from going to war.

How does the global effort to eradicate smallpox fit into the history of U.S.-Soviet relations?