German author and essayist who has critiqued authoritarian regimes in East Europe from Stalin to Putin, has been honored for his commitment to peace in Europe.

Cheney ticket; Helsinki Accords signed by US, USSR; Belgian general strike ousts Leopold III; British government avoids ...

When people talk about a new Cold War, they tend to assume they know exactly what the original Cold War was and when it ended ...

The USSR under Stalin murdered almost all the known steadfast Marxists in the country. Those whom Stalin called "Trotskyites", the activists who stayed loyal to the working-class and democratic aims ...

During a recent trip to Tallinn, I visited the horrific manifestations of an unredeemable totalitarian regime. A similar ...

As Russia races to perfect a nuclear-armed spacecraft, it is also likely preparing to launch an orbital sabotage mission to ...

In this documentary, we cover the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most decisive engagements of World War II. Fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1942 to 1943, the battle marked a ...

His work, while deeply rooted in Soviet traditions, sometimes challenged the very premises of Socialist Realism by revealing ...

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 ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

The Soviet-style “Potemkin tour” is alive and well in today’s China – as PUP found out when several of its staff took a ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, ...