If he completes this, he will be Russia’s longest-serving leader overtaking Joseph Stalin’s 29 years. Putin’s rivals had ...
While Soviet citizens suffered from repression, hunger, and shortages of food and clothing, their leaders built mansions in ...
"The German invaders… are usually called ‘fascists’. The Hitlerites… consider this wrong and stubbornly continue to call themselves ‘national socialists’… they want to assure us that the party of ...
when Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin orchestrated efforts to punish and kill an estimated 1 million people suspected of harboring anti-Soviet sentiments. Stalin had banned abstract art years earlier, in ...
The word choices of Russian governors were part of a major study of when and how flattery is used in authoritarian regimes.
Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current ...
In a bloody bid to consolidate his power and eliminate anyone he considered insufficiently loyal to himself, Joseph Stalin, ...
Leave it to the kids. Our classical music critic explains how the National Children's Symphony of Venezuela, the West-Eastern ...
Having helped win the Cold War, the neocons should have declared victory and retired. Unfortunately for the rest of us, they ...
A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. That idea — roughly paraphrasing a quote attributed to Joseph ...
The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to ...