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HistoryA small victorious revolution: How pro-war Russians nearly deposed the monarchy in 1905KGKonstantin GaivoronskyOctober 30, 2025
HistoryFrom perpetual war to integration: Revisiting the Franco-German miracleAUAlexei UvarovOctober 16, 2025
HistoryThe Nazi factor: How West Germany democratized without fully purging its Hitler-era civil serviceAUAlexei UvarovSeptember 3, 2025
HistoryStealing for the Soviet Union: How the USSR deployed shadow trade and industrial espionage to circumvent Western sanctionsFVFilip VujacicAugust 7, 2025
HistoryOne hundred years before Prigozhin: How the Bolsheviks nearly fell to to an uprising in MoscowKGKonstantin GaivoronskyAugust 5, 2025
HistoryNot quite clean: Why Germany and Japan failed to fully purge their elites after World War IIAUAlexei UvarovJuly 24, 2025
HistoryFrozen frontline: Lessons learned from the Korean model of conflict terminationKGKonstantin GaivoronskyJune 20, 2025
HistoryDemocracy to go: The promise and peril of American intervention abroad AUAlexei UvarovJune 6, 2025
HistoryA global kill list: Inside the KGB’s secret retribution operations beyond the Iron CurtainAUAlexei UvarovMay 24, 2025
HistorySteal of the century. How the West allowed Stalin to Sovietize Poland after World War IIICIngrid CharuMay 16, 2025
HistoryFrom trade wars to battlefields: Tariff disputes have ignited some of history's biggest conflictsKGKonstantin GaivoronskyMay 1, 2025
HistoryThere and Back Again: Trans people in the West are losing ground in their struggle for rightsRARustam AlexanderApril 30, 2025
HistoryThe Templars of Langley, Virginia: Declassified documents outline the CIA’s quest to find the Ark of the CovenantYuriy MatsarskyApril 24, 2025
HistoryThe Lost Army: War veterans could pose a problem for Putin’s Russia, just like they did for interwar GermanyAPAnton PavlovichApril 21, 2025
HistoryDiagnosis as denunciation: Kremlin meddling in doctor-patient confidentiality has a long historyRARustam AlexanderFebruary 18, 2025
HistoryDeath Camps Inc. How the Syrian dictatorship outsourced the construction of torture prisons to fugitive NazisYuriy MatsarskyDecember 23, 2024
HistoryPolite comrades: How Moscow pioneered the use of “little green men” in Estonia a century agoIgor KopytinDecember 6, 2024
HistorySaladin and the wonderful lamp: Why Iran really believes Israel is using Djinns to fight Hezbollah Yuriy MatsarskyOctober 22, 2024
History“I despise your court and I despise your power”: The complete collection of Alexei Navalny's “last words”Oleg PshenichnySeptember 13, 2024
HistoryHow Iranian Azerbaijan narrowly avoided becoming the USSR's “new territory”: Excerpt from “Iran's Kremlin Agents” by Mikhail KrutikhinMikhail KrutikhinAugust 14, 2024
HistoryBland Samaritans: The modern-day descendants of the people that sparked the Arab-Israeli conflictYuriy MatsarskyJuly 24, 2024
HistoryLife after deaths: How nations reconcile following bloody conflictsMDMarina DulnevaJune 9, 2024
HistoryA Tatar gift: On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean TatarsYuriy MatsarskyMay 21, 2024
HistoryGallows for a Propagandist: How the Third Reich's chief proponent failed to defend himself in NurembergThe InsiderMay 12, 2024
HistorySelf-prosecution as a national sport. How Stalinism forged ‘self-criticism,’ self-denunciation, and other forms of public apologyThe InsiderMarch 18, 2024
History“No brother of mine”: Who started the war between ISIS and Iran?Yuriy MatsarskyJanuary 31, 2024
HistoryDevil vs. Advocate: The amazing, if rare, triumphs of legal defense in Stalin's Soviet UnionISIvan ShemanovDecember 13, 2023
HistoryFaith with trust issues. Why Iran is struggling to consolidate the Islamic world against IsraelYuriy MatsarskyDecember 4, 2023
HistoryOrthodoxy, autocracy, anti-Semitism. How the Russian Empire endorsed and justified pogromsThe InsiderNovember 24, 2023
HistoryRevolutionaries without borders: How exiled opposition brought change to their countriesAFAlexander FiniarelNovember 20, 2023
