The annexation of Western Ukraine to the USSR was a political mistake by Joseph Stalin, which led to major negative ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

What do you think, which feeling does a person have more: patriotism, passion for money or fear? It seems that many people's ...

The Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste Révolutionnaires ( NPA-R) in France has its first congress on 31 January to 2 February. In ...

Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the ...

In the bleak and bitter winter of early 1947, the Nazi killing machine has been vanquished but Britain and America face the machinations of another ruthless enemy... the emboldened Soviet leader ...

Lying a relic of Soviet grandeur, people from nearby towns have their wedding photos taken at the iconic ruins.

Russia’s judicial system now hands down guilty verdicts at a rate 20 times higher than Stalin’s Soviet Union, and 30 times ...

Putin has long viewed nostalgia as a powerful means of reassuring — and subduing — the public. Putin revived the Soviet anthem and restored the Red Army flag as the official banner of the military.

Released from prison after Stalin’s death, the pianist Moisei Weinberg was initially too terrified to leave his cell. The chapters evoke a number of themes in the experience of Soviet repression ...