On March 3, 1918, Russia quit World War I with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk—ceding vast territory and reshaping borders from the Baltics to Ukraine. Here’s how that rushed “peace” still echoes in ...
In the summer of 1914, German top brass ordered a full-frontal assault on Osowiec Fortress, located in north-eastern Poland. Germany saw Russia as a significant threat to their rising power, and the ...
Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine shows how the continent has not yet solved the problem of what order comes after imperial collapse ...