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STEPHEN GLOVER: Strengthening our defences during a European war doesnt feature among the Prime Ministers much-vaunted five pledges. Its clearly not important enough.

Treaties of Brest-Litovsk, peace treaties signed at Brest-Litovsk (now in Belarus) by the Central Powers with the Ukrainian Republic (Feb. 9, 1918) and with Soviet Russia (March 3, 1918), which concluded hostilities between those countries during World War I. Peace negotiations, which the Soviet government had requested on Nov. 8, 1917, began on December 22. They were divided into several sessions, during which the Soviet delegation tried to prolong the proceedings and took full advantage of it...

The late Duncan Hallas, along with Tony Cliff and about 30 others, was a founder-member in 1950 of a small, anti-Stalinist Marxist group.

A coup attempt led by Evgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the Russian Wagner mercenary force, collapsed in the evening hours of Saturday, local time.

In his address to the Russian people in the wake of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny, Russian President Vladimir Putin alluded to the events of 1917, when General Lavr Kornilov’s infantry rebellion opened the way for the Bolsheviks to seize power and unleash a five-year civil war. From the Kremlin’s perspective, that smuta (dark age), is the most dangerous threat to Russia, though not merely for the military calamity that it portends. The men in Putin’s Kremlin do not car...

Wacław Radziwinowicz thinks Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny has exposed the Kremlin’s lack of troops willing to defend the regime.

The Saint Helena Forum for Innovation & Creativity will present a free virtual forum on the science of addiction on June 28.

Volkov witnessed the dying breaths of his grandfather, the exiled Russian revolutionary leader, and devoted his final decades to preserving his legacy.

Peter Boyle — While researching later volumes of 'Capital', Marx began to realize that it wouldn’t be enough to repurpose capitalist growth for human ends. Instead, to heal metabolic rifts in nature, a communist society would need to slow down and touch grass.

A Russian-trained Mexican microbiologist will soon be released from a U.S. prison, a year after pleading guilty for his role in a bungled job surveilling a government informant. Turns out the informant was a Russian defector whose betrayal of a spy network in the U.S. infuriated Vladimir Putin.