This month’s book recommendations include a feminist retelling of French folklore, a mystery centred around the Brontë sisters, and a ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

Some sources categorise it as being the Eastern Bloc; in other words, only including countries that were Communist during the Cold War. Meanwhile, other sources say that nations including Albania ...

Seventy years ago, in the early years of the Cold War, East and West were locked in a nuclear arms race. The UK government needed somewhere to test its first rockets capable of carrying a nuclear ...

The Western defense pact established in 1949 to rival the Eastern Bloc not only survived the end of the Cold War but expanded east into the former Soviet sphere of influence, setting the stage for ...

Photo: Getty Images. A secret CIA operation spent decades flooding the Eastern Bloc with banned literature – nowhere more successfully than Poland in the 1980s, writes Charlie English.

The southern African regional bloc has decided to end its military deployment to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa says SADC bloc remains committed to playing its part to promote lasting and ...