The successor states of the former Czechoslovakia are marking 50 years since the crushing of the Prague Spring by Warsaw Pact forces, writes David Tresilian in Prague ...

1868 – The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government. 1868 – ...

Created out of America's desire to protect Europe from communism, the North Atlantic Alliance underwent profound changes ...

SINCE Munich the German trade drive in Southeastern Europe has entered upon an entirely new phase. This change became especially marked after Schacht's dismissal from the Reichsbank last January. It ...

On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West. Following military operations, which lasted for the next 20 days, Nazi Germany ...

The Trump administration has hopefully just learned an important lesson: the strategic importance of Voice of America’s foreign language services for U.S. national security. After Israel ...

Freed from their Soviet shackles, several former Warsaw Pact countries became NATO members. Visegrad Group members Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic joined in 1999.

This is an English translation of a Dutch text about the 'Manifesto des Seize' of 1916 by Homme Wedman. First published in Dutch in 1995 in the 'Tweede Jaarboek Anarchisme / De AS 112' under the title ...

His successor, George H. W. Bush, did the same in 1992, talking about American presidents confronting the Warsaw Pact, which had been “lashed together by occupation troops and quisling ...

The Second World War erupted in September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. Hitler’s bloody assault was facilitated by the signing of a “Non-Aggression Pact” with the ...