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

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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

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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

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