‘How Finland Survived Stalin’ by Kimmo Rentola review
How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War by Kimmo Rentola argues that political guile as much as military might stopped the Soviets in their tracks.
James Rodgers
The Red Hotel by Alan Philps review
The correspondents who reported on a period when Russia changed European, and world, history.
American Moppets
Americanised globalisation and the new world of Russian business in the 1990s.
The USSR in Afghanistan
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its effect on the international politics of the late Cold War era.
Can’t Go On
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, had aimed to bring new life to a system in which he believed until the last.
Revolution in the air
Those who control the media control the state. Lenin knew this, but by 1991 his Soviet successors had forgotten, to their ultimate cost.