The 9/11 Alliance
How the threat of international terrorism made Russia and the United States allies in the early 2000s, and why it is time to remember that lesson.
Articles
An Overture at the Opera
How Britain became the first Western country to work out the formula for successful cooperation with Russia, and showed it to the world.
The First World Perestroika
How the USSR took the first step towards the West and, together with America, ended the Cold War with neither victors nor vanquished.
Capitalism in the Service of the Five-Year Plan
How the USSR gave Americans tens of thousands of jobs in the years of the Great Depression — and they, in return, helped build Soviet industry.
The Church on Guard of Peace
Who prevented the Third World War: the Vatican, the Moscow Patriarchate and the back channel of October 1962
The Turn of the Key
The change of entourage as a door to a new dialogue — with all the mistakes of the past taken into account
The Leading Stratum
Who is to open the door: portraits of the turn’s teams and Ilyin’s criteria of selection
An Inventory of Obstacles
What really stands in the way of return — and how such things have been removed in history
The Other Side’s Interest
Why Europe will take Russia back — out of calculation, not love
The German Lesson
How Europe’s enemy became its heart — and what of this is transferable to the Russian case
