Why did Joseph Stalin Decide to Invade Finland in 1939?
The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began in late 1939. For Stalin, as Kimmo Rentola explains, it turned out to be a strategic blunder
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The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began in late 1939. For Stalin, as Kimmo Rentola explains, it turned out to be a strategic blunder
The real-life inspiration for a classic character from fiction
Kimmo Rentola tells us all about 'The Winter War'
Kassia St Clair on the adventure that accelerated the twentieth century
Kassia St Clair on an event that 'accelerated the twentieth century'
The Armistice: a strange and uncertain peace
Charles Freeman on the endurance of Greek culture
The feats and follies of the airship era, on board the world’s largest flying machine
Jose Luis González Macías on the wild beauty of lighthouses
Leonora Nattrass on the paranoid politics of the 1790s
Suzie Edge on the stories that come from within