On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...
Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy in modern Russia.
The future of Greece after World War II was decided between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, who met secretly in Moscow.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian human rights activist who helped to expose the Stalin-era Great Terror and found mass graves of thousands of the victims was freed from ...
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...
Not so much The Hunt for Red October as a hunt for the nearest mechanic. Thus guffawed Nato secretary general Mark Rutte at ...