With this summer issue, History &Civilizations is enriched with new appointments. Each month, an article entitled Lair du temps will deepen a subject that, beyond the foam of the news, works our time. This month, with the 60th anniversary of the missile crisis which opposed, around Cuba, the America
The MiG-21 was perhaps the hallmark of Soviet aviation during the Cold War. So it could not be made available to the air forces of the Balkan satellite states and Yugoslavia with which the Soviets were seeking a rapprochement. Of the communist Balkan states, only Albania did not acquire MiG-21s thro
The siege and battle of Belgrade in 1456 is one of the most decisive conflicts in the Balkans during the period of Ottoman expansion. After the Fall of the City, the Turks, under Mohammed II the Conqueror, intended to extend their rule over the whole of the Aimos peninsula. Their opponents were Ioan
In France , the abolition of slavery was voted for the first time in 1794 during the Revolution, and became effective by the decree of April 27, 1848 initiated by Victor Schoelcher . The abolitionist movement began in the 18th century, and it quickly became international, even if it first affected