In a controversial claim, well-known Dalit writer and columnist Kanwal Bharti has asserted that a clever Brahminical move ...

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University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR – at the heart of which was Russia, by nurturing a CIA agent, Mikhail Gorbachev ...

Will Trump be the American Gorbachev? It's now or never for Europe to catch up with the United States' economy, if the ...

He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow. The USCentral Intel­ligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

I remember [Soviet and Russian statesman Mikhail] Gorbachev, the fall of the Berlin Wall. I remember every separation of nations, every agreement that was signed. One side did not honor the ...

‘The threat of world war is no more,’ Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev declared in December 1991. By 1993, most bunkers in the UK were decommissioned and sold off, with many purchased by ...

Ronald Reagan meets with Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev in the Whitehouse in the late 80s. The Ivy can be seen in the background. “It makes me feel a little bit like a part of history ...

Later, Germany’s good relations with Mikhail Gorbachev led to reunification and helped end the cold war. Putin was determined to reverse Russia’s cold war defeat, but Germany clung to its ...

In this episode of the LRB podcast, Neal Ascherson talks to Thomas Jones about his life and career, from his time as propaganda secretary for the Uganda National Congress to the moment he witnessed ...