Politics

Nostradamus's centuries become a weapon of World War II propaganda, as Nazi Germany and Britain forge quatrains to break...

Germany, 1933: Hitler rises through elections, tears up Versailles, and builds a propaganda war machine the Allies grasp...

An interjecting episode: a direct address to the teenagers who protested in January, on how their anger was exploited an...

How Goebbels and Hitler turned Nostradamus into a weapon of psychological warfare, and how England and France forged the...

Stalin's militant atheism costs Soviet soldiers their will to fight as Hitler's Operation Barbarossa advances, until he...

Stalin borrows scorched earth from Tsar Alexander I and attrition warfare from the ancient Egyptians to break Hitler at...

A Soviet officer in Stalingrad discovers an extraordinary sniper named Vasily Zaytsev, and Stalin turns him into a legen...

From the 2011 upheaval in Egypt back to the playbook of manipulating minds: how social media, anonymous accounts and man...

A look back at Russia in 1917: how profiteers and a terrorist group called Narodnaya Volya paved the way, and how the ex...

Lenin is exiled to Siberia, marries Krupskaya and flees to Germany to plot Russia's fall, then engineers a peaceful 1905...

Lenin concludes that no revolution succeeds without the army, engineers the February Revolution of 1917, and turns a pea...

The Bolsheviks take power as the Kerensky Offensive and the Kornilov Affair convulse Russia. Lenin orders the execution...