This is an audio transcript of the Rachman Review podcast episode: ‘How do you define a war crime?’ ...

D uring the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union joined forces against their common enemy: Germany. As ...

The 1970s were pivotal years in the Cold War. The United States was at a low ebb, still reeling from the Vietnam War, social ...

the Soviet Union and sometimes China played for political pre-eminence in the Third World. By deftly manipulating the opportunities afforded Cuba by the Cold War, he managed to turn his island ...

The Soviet Union returned its bombs and missiles home, and the United States took its missiles and bombs from Turkey. Five months after Kennedy denounced war and praised peace to the students of ...

Strange relationships are formed by war, not least that of the USSR and Great Britain in World War Two. The invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941 shattered their formerly expedient pact and ...

The Taliban is likely to be hoping for economic and political benefits from an improved relationship with Russia.

the Soviet Union came down on the side of anti-communist Argentina, and the Argentine Air Force received information from Soviet space forces in a “classic” Cold War scenario, only the sides ...

The MiG-19 ‘Farmer’ was the Soviet Union’s first serial production supersonic jet fighter, serving as a formidable force during the Cold War. Despite being sandwiched between its more famous ...

Michael Walker here has filled a long-standing gap in modern, pre-communist Chinese history with his impressive work on the 1929 War between a China emerging from its Warlord Era, and a Soviet Union ...

the Soviet Union and sometimes China played for political pre-eminence in the Third World. By deftly manipulating the opportunities afforded Cuba by the Cold War, he managed to turn his island ...