Yaroslav Listov

Yaroslav Listov19.08.2026

Why Deng Xiaoping Saved China While Yanaev Lost the Soviet Union History sometimes confronts states with remarkably similar tests. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the two largest socialist states in the world faced crises of their political and economic systems: economic hardship, growing public discontent, factional struggles within the ruling elites, and mounting […]

Yaroslav Listov17.08.2026

The 130th anniversary of the birth of Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir (1896–1937), a Red Army commander of the 1st rank and one of the most talented military leaders of the Russian Civil War, is being commemorated this year. Yakir was born in Chișinău into the family of a pharmacist. He studied chemistry at the University of […]

Yaroslav Listov14.08.2026

On Aug. 13, 1871, Karl Paul Friedrich August Liebknecht was born in Leipzig—a man whose name would become a symbol of uncompromising struggle for freedom and justice. The son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Karl absorbed socialist ideas from an early age. Trained as a […]

Yaroslav Listov30.07.2026

Seventy years ago, in the final days of July 1956, the world changed. How the USSR Defeated Britain and France A former colony delivered a resounding slap in the face to its imperial rulers. Standing before a crowd in Alexandria’s Al-Manshia Square, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal. He […]

Yaroslav Listov14.07.2026

80 Years Ago the United States Radioactively Contaminated Vast Areas of the Pacific Ocean. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States did not stop. The next step was to test nuclear weapons at sea. Vice Admiral William H.P.Blandy selected Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as the site. In July 1946, […]

Yaroslav Listov08.07.2026

One hundred and forty-five years ago, a man was born whose name became legendary even during his lifetime. At full gallop he rides, Bursting into life and immortality— Grigory Kotovsky, rebel and brigade commander, A four-time bearer of high honors. During the revolutionary year of 1905, still unsure of the proper way to fight the […]

Yaroslav Listov06.07.2026

“If We Have to Elect a Body, We’ll Elect a Body”: Yeltsin’s Heart Attack and How the Truth Was Hidden from the Country. On June 26, 1996, one week before the second round of the presidential election, Boris Yeltsin suffered his fifth heart attack of the year—the result of heavy drinking and the “jumping and […]

Yaroslav Listov05.07.2026

I have loved reading for as long as I can remember, but when I was nine years old, my life changed dramatically. Up on the top shelf of a closet, I discovered a mysterious old book. Its pages were loose and worn, and its black-and-white illustrations beckoned me toward distant, enigmatic lands. It was King […]

Yaroslav Listov22.06.2026

Eighty-five years ago, on June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began. And today, more than ever, it is important to respond to the brazen falsehood about June 22—that the USSR was allegedly not preparing for war with Germany. It was preparing. And it was preparing on a massive, systematic scale, at the cost of […]

Yaroslav Listov29.04.2026

Served in a Technologically Sounding Manner. Recently, a post on social media by Palantir Technologies captured the attention of many. This software company makes software. Its main clients are the US military and intelligence agencies. The post reads like a manifesto of sorts, promoting the ideas from last year’s book, “The Technological Republic.” It has […]

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The GKChP and the Chinese Lesson

How a Chemistry Student Defeated the Tsarist Generals

155 Years Since the Birth of Karl Liebknecht

The Last Stand of the Colonial Powers

Paradise Blown Apart

A Living Legend

How the Truth About Yeltsin Was Hidden from the Country

A Childhood Filled with Ancient Mysteries

85 Years Ago…

Ordinary Fascism

The GKChP: The Day the Soviet Union’s End Began

The GKChP and the Chinese Lesson

Minamata Disease: Japan’s Environmental Reckoning

How a Chemistry Student Defeated the Tsarist Generals