The history of assassinations, as Simon Ball points out in his book Death to Order, is one of myth-making, bungled plans and ...

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 ...

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

Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

Vladimir Putin’s worldview, forged in the rigid, zero-sum logic of Soviet-era geopolitics, is central to this strategy. His ...

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

The USSR-built Plokštinė Missile Base once housed nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. Abandoned in the late 1970s, it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...