IT’S the duty of all good people to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a friend, to help carry the burden of a like-minded soul ...

Joseph Stalin had just died, and the Cold War was on the horizon. The four-star general who led the effort in Europe in World ...

The Minneapolis Post Office’s claim to fame is having a long, unique feature: a light fixture that seems to go on and on, reaching several ZIP codes. The 365-foot-long, 16-ton bronze chandelier runs ...

February 25 highlights Khrushchev’s Secret Speech exposing Stalin’s crimes, plus key moments in politics, art, and science ...

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Joseph Stalin’s rise after the Bolshevik Revolution transformed the Soviet Union through industrialization, political purges, ...

Teaching World War II effectively means resisting the temptation to begin with explosions, battles, and December 7, 1941. For ...

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.

“Strategic bombing historically has a weak empirical record for causing capitulation of the target population,” Institute for ...

In the years between the world wars, as other nations focused on military bombers and fighters, the Soviet Union pursued something entirely different. Approved by Joseph Stalin, the Tupolev ANT-20 ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the ...

Why did Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet specifically in Yalta? What preceded this conference? How was the security of ...