This is the twentieth installment in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. It would be nice to think that a peace conference of the ...

After World War I, the political right in Germany developed a myth called the “stab in the back” theory to explain its people’s defeat. Though military leaders had helped negotiate the war’s end, they ...

The Russian government and state propaganda are actively promoting a redivision of the world into spheres of influence. This year marks the Eightieth anniversary of the historic Yalta Conference, ...

This year is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. One of the biggest frauds of the final stage of that war was the meeting at Yalta of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, British Prime ...

When the State Department made public the Yalta record (TIME, March 28), Senate Democrats hastened to defend Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secret concessions to the U.S.S.R. by blaming his military advisers ...

As the world searches for a cure for covid-19, several states are on a parallel quest to end the malaise between the West and Russia. US President Donald Trump’s recent decision to invite his Russian ...

The great adventure in Big Three cooperation had begun. In Poland and Rumania last week, the Big Three set out to square Russian aims with those of Britain and the U.S., make the Yalta agreements work ...

Yalta, the site of the 1945 conference where American, Soviet, and British leaders shaped postwar Europe through the creation of respective spheres of influence, has become a dirty word of sorts in ...

Donald Trump’s presidency is raising fundamental questions about US foreign policy. Will America revive its old tradition of territorial expansion? Will it ignite a protectionist inferno that burns ...