Trump's alt-right speech in Poland redefined the West in nativist terms, eschewing democratic idealism in favor of "blood and soil" nationalism.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

Why "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is not the book we need in the Trump era.

Last year, the Kremlin called for an increase in patriotic youth—children who would grow up to be soldiers—by sending them to camp.

Getting hold of food during the Soviet era required patience, ingenuity, and luck.

Poroshenko wants his nation to forget its role in Nazi atrocities

Fascism returns to the continent it once destroyed

Irving Howe on the tragedy of our twentieth-century Tolstoy

In fleeing to Russia, Edward Snowden joins a long, unhappy litany of American dissidents