As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his assessment of Vichy and in his calculation that such ruthless action would convince ...

Avner Landes discusses his new book 'The Delegation,' an account of the adventures - and dark fates - of an actor and poet ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...

The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

The Soviet Union Stole Aircraft Designs from the Americans One concrete example of the parasitic relationship that Stalin had with the Americans was in the way that the Soviets exploited their ...

July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in ...

When the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, millions in the country wept with grief. Many millions more wept, unsure of why. For almost three decades, the Soviet ...

In his thorough historical exploration of memorials and magnificent edifices in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Kalashnikov argues that the frenzy of monument building and grand architectural projects was ...

Great Britain welcomed Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union as an ally against Germany after Hitler broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact in June 1941 by launching Operation Barbarossa.