Kim Il-sung ruined the economy, hoarded power and saw his countrymen slaughtered, as Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant ...

Sunny Ajose happened twice upon this world. First, as a gamete, ruffling deep inside his mother’s womb. At his second dawning ...

Did you know that Joseph Stalin could sing with perfect pitch? Or that he was so scared of his wife that he would hide from her in the bathroom? Did you know that Peter the Great liked to surround ...

In France Le Monde devoted a special issue to Stalin, but the French merely reprinted the 2001 biography by Jean-Jacques Marie ... This is an exceptionally well-written book. As with A J P Taylor's ...

Imagine a political and cultural revolution that shakes the world. Indeed, one could easily say it turned the world upside down. Now imagine you are part ...

Directors like Pa Ranjith, Mari Selvaraj, and Gopi Naynar are challenging the Brahminical gaze, which dominated film ...

The Global Biography Working Group, and the Women's History Network. Sergey Radchenko will discuss his new magisterial book To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, forthcoming ...

“When he denounced tyranny and repression, he was not only pointing a finger at Stalin’s Russia ... a Professor of History at the American University in Washington, DC, in her book, Orwell’s Ghosts: ...

My book, Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO, was published in 2009, prior to both editions of Macmillan's biography of Hani, and well before the second edition of Smith ...

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday released 30 books that were translated through the Tamil Nadu Translation Grant programme in 2023 and 2024. At the valedictory session of the Chennai ...