Soviet Union
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Politics & Society
Why Russia isn’t about to invade Ukraine soon
Russia is unlikely to invade Ukraine because it’s already succeeding – keeping Ukraine unstable and forcing the US to take seriously its security concerns.
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Arts & Culture
Scientist and killer: A split life
How does an urbane chemist become a Nazi, then go back to being a respected researcher? And what does it say about the extent of the humanity in all of us?
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Politics & Society
Book extract
The long shadow of the Cold War
A new book explores the long shadow cast by the Cold War over successive US presidents and how it continues to shape modern US foreign policy
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Politics & Society
How Soviet tanks shook up the Australian Left
A new archive of personal papers provides a unique insight into the Soviet crack down on the ‘Prague Spring’ in 1968 created a dilemma for Australian communists just as wider protest movements were energising the left
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Arts & Culture
Under the Microscope
The professor who came in from the cold
Professor Stephen Wheatcroft has spent an academic lifetime researching in the bowels of the Soviet archives