At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...
THE SCOPE OF contemporary US dominance is unparalleled in human history. America has 752 military facilities in 130 countries, some of them until recently part of the Soviet empire. What the American ...
Stephenson is a writer of exuberant prose who revels in embracing big ideas, often in the fields of science and technology. He has written historical fiction, speculative fiction and cyberpunk in ...
China's 75th anniversary of Communist rule was marked quietly amid fears of a Soviet-style collapse. President Xi Jinping emphasizes party loyalty and ideological discipline, wary of ...
Standing a towering 105 feet tall (according to contemporary sources), the Colossus of Rhodes was designed by the architect Chares of Lindos, a student of the famed Greek sculptor Lysippos.