Moscow-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s health is in question, and speculation about succession is rife. The Kremlin wants to keep Chechnya quiet, especially amid the war on Ukraine. Kadyrov ...

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Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

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But Trump is a personalist leader: one that concentrates power around himself and his inner circle. Personalists differ from ordinary autocrats or dictators in that they hollow out the governing ...

Donald Trump’s public appearances are raising concern among researchers.

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Mark B Smith’s Exit Stalin tells the history of a Soviet society largely without protest, without violent repression, without dramatic events, and without sudden economic shifts ...