With The Sound of Utopia, Michael Krielaars offers a chattily accessible survey of the musicians who lived beholden to the KGB’s whims ...

The term Napoleon Complex or Napoleon Syndrome refers to a psychological phenomenon where individuals of short stature exhibit overly aggressive or domineering behavior to compensate for their ...

Hitler won his 1938 election by 99.08% of the voters; Stalin polls 115% in his own Moscow ... He has made only one radio speech and is not likely to make many more. His thick Georgian accent ...

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

After the Stalin-Hitler pact and the invasion of Finland this was almost ... he could mount the platform and raise them out of their chairs with a revolutionary speech. They respected him, but he was ...

President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House could result in a vengeful four years that may end up resembling a ...

Hitler is easily one of the “most popular ... foster a fanatical devotion that he used to justify war and genocide. Stalin’s personality cult relied heavily on propaganda.

Conservatives idle at their peril if they ignore rather than denounce racists. Republicans should drive them from the party, ...

The master of political satire talks about his new stage production of Dr. Strangelove and the (not great!) state of Western ...

There were plenty of other recipients Granlund could have selected without crossing the line of decency and propriety by including Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler ... that free speech is not ...

For many, George Orwell’s 1984 vividly describes the absurdity and danger of an authoritarian dystopia. In an excellent recent article for the Washington Post, Andrew Doyle examined Orwell’s essays ...