Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...

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Mugabe loses constitution vote; Thatcher to head British Tories; Stalin-Mao sign treaty; Kurdish revolt in Turkey.

At least 31 suspected Maoist rebels and two police officers have been killed in the deadliest combat so far this year in central India ...

In three crazy weeks, Mr Trump has shown that other than technological and military supremacy, the US and indeed nearly all developed countries are as ordinary as they can get. Germany, after all, ...

That’s not the right analogy. The whiz kids had degrees from the finest schools, and were mostly in their 30s and 40s. They ...

A country, by nature, might be conservative and right-leaning because of its vertical values and boundaries, while progressive leftist values exist in society to regulate the excesses of these ...

Chinese dictator Chairman Mao shared Stalin’s opinion about actual force being the ultimate political power. In 1927, when he was leading the communist insurgency he pronounced that “Political power ...

Peter Dutton, according to his supporters, is the epitome of a strong leader racist tropes, with racist tropes and ...

I'm not sure Republicans know the meaning of purge. Our new president is in the middle of the only U.S Government purge in America's history. This isn't a good thing.

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