In September 1939, as Poland collapsed under invasion, German and Soviet officers met openly in Brest-Litovsk. Photographs ...

Germany helps deliver Lenin back into a collapsing Russia, and the Bolsheviks turn a fragile post-tsar government into a takeover that grows from street pressure into outright force. After dissolving ...

World War I ended in Russia on March 3, 1918, with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The signatories included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Lenin’s Bolshevik regime. Lenin ...

A festival tour brings together history, imagination and the growing bond between two movie industries, Xu Fan reports. From the fantasy romance I Am Dragon to the world's first feature film shot in ...

In the wake of the Russian Empire’s humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), the Gangut-class was presented as the answer to many of Russia’s naval problems. In that war with the Empire ...

As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we must never forget those responsible for igniting that supreme example of human aggression and suffering. Conventional ...

When Stephen Grynberg first stepped onto the grounds of Brest’s old locomotive football stadium in 1997, he wasn’t expecting to find fragments of his family’s past buried beneath the turf. The stadium ...

"Focus" caused a furor on social media. Belarusian TikTok was blown up by another household discovery. One of the users discovered that the producers of Brest-Litovsk oil are very serious about ...

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 ...

Yes, Ukraine’s situation is different. However, Israel overcame its betrayals with a population hardly the size of Kyiv's and a land hardly 3% of Ukraine's size, and with no mineral riches at all.