Across the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, huge concrete complexes stand as testament to Europe’s post-war housing drive. Constructed en masse in the second half of the 20th century, their ...

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War.By Charlie English. William Collins; 384 pages; £25. To be published in America by Random House in July; $35. B ooks were smuggled on boats ...

Perhaps that was as it should have been, since the exhibition I was on my way to see was “Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s,” a comparatively cold, gray ...