Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless.

World-class science and technology developed in the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorial rule under conditions of political violence, lack of international contacts, and severe restrictions on the ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

It was 1938, and the Soviet Union sought to protect the city of Leningrad from a possible German attack on the eve of World War II. But there was one little thing that prevented them from creating a ...

Other Ukrainians were also fighting on the side of Peter the Great, Shendryk said, but under Soviet leader Josef Stalin the ...

One of the strangest VE Day facts is that the former Princess Elizabeth was partying with everyone else in London. She wore her Auxiliary Transport Service uniform and, together with Princess Margaret ...

Meanwhile, leaders from several opposition parties have arrived in Chennai to attend the first Joint Action Committee Meeting on delimitation, called by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin.