Rumor has it that an ancient, powerful curse contributed to the start of World War II. On June 22, 1941, Joseph Stalin ...

Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current ...

The biting social realist William Gropper attacked demagogues of his time in political cartoons, stylish art and populist ...

In “Hitler’s American Gamble,” British historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman concluded that it was Adolf Hitler’s ...

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago ...

The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since Stalin ...

"Time" has chosen the most influential person of the year, whether that is a person who did good or bad, since 1927.

The card system of food distribution, introduced in the USSR with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, was ...

Buried deep beneath the Earth's surface are secret hideouts worthy of any Bond villain, they are the real-life lairs of the ...