Turkmenistan has long been considered one of the globe’s most isolated countries, a legacy that dates to the 1990s when the nation broke away from the Soviet Union. New streamlined visa regulations ...

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

A Stalinist who denounced Leon Trotsky as an “agent of the Gestapo” was shielded from criticism by SWP speakers.

An imposing portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin greets visitors to San Rafael’s Museum of International Propaganda. The founder ...

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

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

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

Stalin was leader of the Soviet Union during World War II, when the IS-2 was first developed to help defeat German forces at a time when it wasn't certain that was possible.

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.

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

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 ...