In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

Vladimir Putin once had police raid a cinema showing a film for breaching a very specific law. Putin has never been a leader to be far away from headlines, shown most recently by his ongoing public ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of ...

The meeting will end in the usual whimper with a fleeting sideways glance at productivity, where business groups have already ...

It’s hard not to see a straight line between Stalin’s version of photoshopping and the purge of the Pentagon archives in 2025 ...

Understanding communism requires looking squarely at Marx himself. In him, we find the violent, exploitative, self-centred ...

It was 8am at Tbilisi Central Station, and the 870 service had seen better days. Faded Soviet-era wagons waited on the tracks, the red and white livery of Georgian Railways hidden beneath thick layers ...

The Arbitration Court of the Vologda region demanded that the monument to Joseph Stalin be removed from the museum's ...

A regional arbitration court in Vologda has ruled in favor of public prosecutors in a case involving a controversial monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The verdict invalidates the contract ...

Jews in the West are facing a gradually unfolding witch hunt, spurred by fanatics and zealots no less venomous than the Puritans who drove the Salem Witch Trials.

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan's ‘The Odyssey’ has roped in American actor Logan Marshall-Green after Cosmo Jarvis stepped down ...

Public media play a vital role in American democracy, but if the president has his way, they will soon be gutted.