Amid the tense atmosphere of the late 1930s, Stalin unleashed the Great Purge — a sweeping campaign of political repression ...

Be alert Recently, I ran across the following information which brought to mind the old saying, “history repeats itself.” “Joseph Stalin was head of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. He expected to ...

From the ashes of Operation Barbarossa, Soviet partisan warfare emerged not as spontaneous resistance, but as a brutal state-orchestrated campaign rooted in civil war tactics, political purges, and ...

Rights activists, however, said the visit to mourn victims of the “Great Purge” was an election ploy and warned that the consolidation of power that has occurred under Putin risks returning Russia to ...

Tom Sutcliffe speaks to Sean Hayes, best known for his role as Jack in Will and Grace. Now he's playing pianist Oscar Levant in Broadway hit Good Night Oscar, which has just opened at the Barbican in ...

Composition, painted in 1918-20 and slated for destruction by Stalin, has an intriguing fragment of text in Yiddish at its ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

Many business leaders are horrified at the prospect of New York City turning socialist under Zohran Mamdani, but Trump's assaults on free-market capitalism make him look like John D. Rockefeller.

The concept of battle tanks isn't much more than a century old, and these examples from around the world may have served for ...

Over 80 years, CIA officers saw themselves as a secret army in the battle for what once was known as the free world. Now the ...