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This is a site about the books and other writing by James Rodgers, author of Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia From Lenin to Putin (new edition 2023; first published July 2020); Headlines from the Holy Land (2015 and 2017); No Road Home: Fighting for Land and Faith in Gaza (2013); Reporting Conflict (2012). My work looks at how stories of international affairs, especially armed conflict, are told to the world.

BIOGRAPHY

I am an author and journalist. During two decades of covering international news, I reported on the end of the Soviet Union; the wars in Chechnya; the coming to power of Vladimir Putin; 9/11; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the 2003 war in Iraq; Russia’s war with Georgia in 2008. I completed correspondent postings for the BBC in Moscow, Brussels, and Gaza. I now teach in the Journalism Department at City St George’s, University of London.

The author in Berlin, February 2023. Photo © Kevin Cummins

New publication ‘The Cold War’ from History Today

Posted On July 19, 2025

Illustration from the History Today website

HISTORY TODAY magazine, where I am a member of the editorial advisory board, has just published a special edition, ‘The Cold War’.

In the words of the editors, the special edition is, ‘a selection of articles taken from the archive of a magazine that was born in the early years of that conflict, and has watched its relevance wane before waxing anew.’

My own contribution is the article, ‘Aimed at fixing the faults in Soviet society, Gorbachev’s policies emphasized them’, in the section ‘Could the USSR have survived?’

In the UK, the special edition is available in newsagents–and it can also be ordered online, here The Cold War from History Today | History Today .

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