Communism and Southeast Asia endured a stormy relationship after World War II, as China exported its political philosophy throughout the…
The boundaries of African colonies seized by European countries in the 19th century were arbitrary, representing lines drawn on a…
The failure of China’s Great Leap Forward strengthened the hands of moderates in the ruling Communist Party who favored a…
Ten years after the Communist victory in China and the establishment of the People’s Republic the new state was growing…
An Afrikaans word meaning ‘separateness’, apartheid was the formal policy of racial segregation which prevailed in South Africa for most…
In August 1945 a H-29 bomber named Enola Gay after the pilot’s mother took off from Tinian Island in the…
Way back in the 19th century the Bihar and Bengal famines of 1873-1874 were dealt with by the import of…
There cannot be a word in the English language that conjures up more haunting - and terrifying - images. The…
Ukraine has always been invaluable to Russia as a ready source of grain. For centuries, the fertile black earth of…
The Armenians have inhabited the Caucusus, between Russia and eastern Turkey, since time immemorial. They were among the earliest Christian…