A new book offers a fresh timely look at Leon Trotsky, perpetrator and victim of Soviet communism. Stephen Kotkin, a Stalin biographer, founded the Hoover History Lab at the Hoover Institution at ...

On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

The 28th of May, 1871, marks the end of an episode that shook European society and the whole world—the Commune of Paris. Since then, humanity has been shaken by so much more telling blows and ...

'Russian Ladas lie at the side of the road, relics of the country's Soviet past.' ...

If you’re following any of the news from Minneapolis and seeing the community-organized resistance to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Border Patrol, and police coordinated attacks on ...

If only the electorate could see and experience the real determination and passion of the Prime Minister then his ratings and the popularity of the government would be transformed. Not for the first ...

A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology ...

WITH China on course to become the world’s most advanced major power in the next decade or two, understanding the roots of its transformation is obviously a necessity.

Those who migrated north did so in search of opportunities in manufacturing, entertainment, academia, and also liberation.

What is usually a day of flowers and love letters looked very different this year in one Russian-occupied Ukrainian city.

Instead, he encountered a resolute cold shoulder. Friends and fellow writers refused to meet him, mourning his silence during the 1971 atrocities -- the massacre of students, intellectuals, and ...