"One more aspect of the Russian Civil War reverberates directly with the conflict we are now watching play out. The wa…"

"[T]o fight a complex, mechanized war, a disciplined army responsible to a central command is far more effective than …"

"I realized something else about the terror in the Congo and the controversy that came to surround it. It was the firs…"

"From the colonial era, the major legacy Europe left to Africa was not democracy as it is practiced today in countries…"

"It is always tempting to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man."

"In the American South, there are hundreds of Civil War battle monuments and preserved plantation manor houses for eve…"

"The movement's other great achievement is this. Among its supporters, it kept alive a tradition, a way of seeing the …"

"In the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and the…"

"It is impossible to watch Vladimir Putin's arrogant invasion of Ukraine without being appalled by its savagery. Dead …"

"Before the U.S.S.R.'s collapse, in 1991, its rulers portrayed that war starkly: The Whites were evil reactionaries wh…"