The history of NATO is a powerful reflection of how international alliances shape global security. Founded in 1949 after WWII ...

The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, four years after the last whale was killed for commercial purposes. Leviathan was slaughtered in the transiting shadow of the Soviet leviathan’s rise and fall.

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on the 20th century — and still has an influence today.