Yet this is a characteristic upside-downness, long practiced in the Soviet Union under Stalin’s own guidance ... “withering away of the state” in order to justify his choice of the ...

Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

In order to keep sending Russians to die ... Anyway, the textbook avers, the repressions seemed justified to most Soviet citizens, and Stalin’s popularity “not only did not diminish” but ...

As one of his colleagues remembered, an order from Beria was a matter of life and death. So it's an indication of the importance Stalin gave to the Soviet atomic bomb program that he appointed ...

Zhdanov and his followers seem to have sold Stalin on a Europe First policy that brought the tide of Soviet power to its maximum westward penetration: Czechoslovakia, seized in a Communist Putsch ...

Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.

Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...

The roots of the Cold War can be traced back to the aftermath of World War II. The Yalta Conference of 1945, where the Allies sought to shape the post-war world, laid the groundwork for the ...

Calif., unleashed an early 2028 attack on Vice President JD Vance at Yale on Tuesday, attempting to frame him as a threat to ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

Behind the collection lies a hidden history that dates back to World War II and an order by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to evacuate millions of Soviets out of the reach of the invading German armies.