Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 303rd installment in the series. Read an overview of the war to date here. After seizing power in ...

SEVERAL COMMENTATORS have described the surrender of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the ruling SYRIZA party's majority to the dictates of the European creditors as a "Brest Litovsk moment." ...

In March 1918, Vladimir Lenin’s Soviet government signed a separate peace with the Central Powers, taking Russia out of World War I. The punitive Treaty of Brest-Litovsk forced Moscow to cede a vast ...

On December 22, delegations sent by the Central Powers meet face to face with the representatives of the October Revolution. Trotsky later writes, “The circumstances of history willed that the ...

In this article however Karl Radek returns to the theme of Brest-Litovsk which he labels from the beginning not as a setback, or a retreat, but a “defeat”. From this all kinds of disasters were ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As politicians with Marxist backgrounds and an affinity for Russia, Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister, ...

After forcing Russia to sign the harsh Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Germany already controlled much of Eastern Europe in 1918. But what if its Spring Offensive had defeated France as well? This segment ...

This is the seventh in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. My afternoon train to Terespol, on the Polish border with ...

This is a worthy sequel to the author's biography of Hindenburg -- "Wooden Titan." It is particularly timely in view of Nazi Germany's alleged designs for eastward expansion much along the lines laid ...