In June 1941, Stalin was faced with mounting warnings that Hitler was about to invade, yet he refused to believe the attack ...

What I saw in those archives, and what I have watched unfold in the United States over the past three decades, are not two separate stories. They are one story, told in two languages. I. The Blueprint ...

The memory of Hoxha and Hoxhaism is another reminder that brutality and ideological fervor make for a dangerous combination.

Just four years after Hiroshima, the Soviet Union shocked the world by detonating its own atomic bomb far earlier than ...

Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Russia's failure to critically confront the mass crimes of the Stalin era is one of the key preconditions for the war against ...

Some well-known analysts and journalists have detected a subtle change in the mood toward Vladimir Putin and the war in ...

Lasha Tughushi’s novel Stalin’s Gambit was first published in Georgian in 2024 and has recently appeared in English. The book ...

The composer himself never matched the joy, optimism and boldness of his first teenage symphony, as the chill of Stalinism settled on his music ...

He was saved by a Jersey family after escaping a Nazi labour camp, but after the war he disappeared in the Soviet Union.

Four European states accused Russia on Thursday ⁠of ⁠trying to destroy the memory of Soviet leader ⁠Josef Stalin's crimes against his own people after a monument to Russians and other people executed ...

Russia’s Victory Day celebrations this year may have been scaled down, but Vladimir Putin has spent decades turning it into a ...