Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum. The closure was ...

Vladimir Solovyov said that Moscow "should destroy every dam" in the U.S. if America gives Russia an ultimatum in the Ukraine ...

While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Timothy West, the actor and director, who has died aged 90, was, until about 10 years ago, best known for the range of his ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

Georgian Dream has “embraced a positive or ambivalent outlook on the Soviet period” and done nothing to counter Russia’s “weaponisation of the image of Stalin tailored to the Georgian ...

Mongolia declared itself a “people’s republic” 100 years ago on November 26, 1924. But despite the name of its capital city remaining Ulan Bator (Red Hero), the country’s Soviet-linked ...

By Sushil Kutty Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin wants eligible Tamilians to have larger families. He said he was ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

From a Russian penal colony, Boris Kagarlitsky responses to questions about socialist democracy, one-party systems and the need to adapt party forms to the realities of today's working class.

In 1920, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball’s first commissioner of the American and National Leagues.