The freezing half-mile walk from my hotel to the Walker Art Center on an early December morning here was a bit dreary and difficult, given that the park between me and the museum was basically one ...

In late September, representatives from NATO-member countries met at the organization’s headquarters in Brussels. The topic of discussion was not the military strength of the Warsaw Pact nations.

LGBT people took to the streets for gay pride June 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria; Zagreb, Croatia; Budapest, Hungary; and Tijuana, Mexico. About 1,000 marched in Sofia, and 2,000 marched in Zagreb and ...

Head coach Jessica Drummond and Oregon lacrosse are fighting desperately to break the norm set in Eugene over the past decade or so. The... University Theatre opens the new year with Tom Stoppard’s ...

QUESTION: What was the last car to have a two-stroke engine? As strict Western emissions standards were developed, two-stroke models were phased out. However, this was not the case in the Eastern Bloc ...

The Trump administration’s sympathy for Moscow’s anti-Nato demands has been likened to Nazi appeasement as parts of the alliance’s eastern bloc warn that the US is priming non-members for invasion.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Paul Coffa, one of weightlifting’s best-known coaches and administrators who has been involved in the sport for more than half a century, has blamed former Soviet Bloc ...

Stalin wasted few words. Last week, the Molotov plan for eastern Europe was already a fully developed reality. After Molotov’s Paris walkout (TIME, July 14), the Soviet Union hastily buttressed its ...

Precious and cloying, Harrison’s Flowers sets out to prove itself a story of hope and human endurance, but swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead ...

Mr. English is the author of, among other books, “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.” I traced a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” to the library of the ...