Over the centuries, the global order has shifted at regular intervals. With the rise of Third World powers, the post-Cold War ...

China has increased its ties in these regions for nearly two decades, including Panama, where bids include a $4 billion ...

Putin wins first presidential term; Saudi King Faisal assassinated; Italian fascists set up postwar trade union; Mussolini ...

Laid out in four connected movements, the Eleventh, unusually for Shostakovich, draws upon several revolutionary songs and ...

In the years after the end of World War I, there were movements of both political and cultural revolt, launched by a new ...

Experts discuss what China steadily expanding its influence in the Caribbean and Latin America could mean for the Sunshine ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.

LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing ...

Ms. Coventry, a former Olympic swimming champion who has been Zimbabwe’s sports minister, faces urgent issues including the ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost ... Mr. Spassky, a former child prodigy, refused to join the Communist Party and had a playboy reputation. Nevertheless, when he arrived ...

This is the realization faced by Stasi victim Peter Keup, the focus of “The Spies Among Us,” as well as our guide to Germany’s history with communist dictatorship. Keup was imprisoned for ...