In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

Despite his bombshell secret, he was given knighthood ... Back in 1964, he admitted to spying for the Soviet Union as part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring during World War II.

"In short he proposed that I should work for an organisation which I was able to identify later as the OGPU (the Soviet secret police)," wrote ... to the Soviet Union. Philby himself fled to ...

Another Red record was added last week to the 117 executions and 97 other sentences meted out by Soviet star-chamber ... of the dread Gay-pay-oo or secret police were themselves dragged before ...

Part two of A Dictator Calls takes us decades away from Stalin and Pasternak. It is 2015 and the writer still can’t rid ...

"In short he proposed that I should work for an organisation which I was able to identify later as the OGPU (the Soviet secret police)," wrote ... to the Soviet Union. Philby himself fled to ...