Political

Vietnam's expansionism in Indochina during the 1970s had its roots in its pre-colonial past, argues Milton Osborne.

A study of Lenin by D.A. Longley which questions the usual criteria by which the great Soviet leader's influence and legacy are judged.

Ivan Roots on the brief reign of Richard Cromwell.

In the second article of The Resurgence of Islam Dr. Leila Ahmed, an Egyptian scholar who has taught at the United Arab Emirates University, examines the Islamic past - that of the Prophet Muhammad and the first four 'right-guarded caliphs' - to which the leaders of the current resurgence in the Islamic world seek a return.

Thomas More is often thought of as a family man who died for his principles, not as a burner of books and heretics.

The two articles that follow provide the background to the resurgence that is sweeping the Islamic world from Morocco to Malaysia. In the first, Professor Enayat of the University of Tehran considers why there should be a resurgence of Islam at this particular point in time and whether it is different from those that have preceded it.

Nineteenth-century Argentina and the United States shared similar frontier problems, but Argentina had both a northern and southern frontier to defend against Indians.

Baron von Mildenstein and the S.S. support of Zionism in Germany from 1934-1936.

C.V. Wedgwood challenges the accepted view of Charles I's fated minister, Thomas Wentworth.

S.M. Toyne tells the strange tale of Johann Frederick Struensee, Denmark's 18th century German dictator.