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 ...

The subsidy granted by the municipality of Brest-Litovsk to the local Yiddish school was countermanded today by the governor of the district despite the fact that the school has a government license.

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 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, ...

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 ...

SYRIZA’s leadership claims that the putative dilemma between war and peace, or between exiting austerity and staying in the Euro, is not exhaustive. The third possibility is neither war nor peace. The ...

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 ...