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

Julia Lotkev's look at Russia's suppression of free speech is a chilling look at how authoritarianism works. It already looks eerily familiar.

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 ...

In 1936 the American Hotels Corporation took over Hotel Bethlehem from Bethlehem Steel. The corporation’s president at the time was J. Leslie Kincaid, who had a significant military record in ...

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 ...

Pic: Flickr. The Chinese government printed billions of copies of the "Little Red Book" of Quotations from Mao, from 1964, then stopped distributing it in 1979. But variants and echoes of Maoism ...

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 ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

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 ...