John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

It was 80 years ago this month that James Burnham’s article titled “Lenin’s Heir” appeared in Partisan Review. It was the top article advertised on the magazine’s cover. It is, unfortunately, unknown ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.

This brings to mind the poets of ideology and algorithms that Nadezhda would have called “mechanical nightingales.” When a ...

After a childhood in Russia in which Yaroshevskaya was deprived of owning a doll, she went on to embody one on television as Fanfreluche as she read from, riffed on and interpreted children’s fairy ...

The survival of Estonia, Europe and the broader Western world hinges on resisting the dangerous allure of appeasement in the ...

A giant billboard for a war film and mock tank models stationed at the entrance leave no doubt about the mission of Russia's ...

In the 1930s USSR, composers and artists could face arrest - and death - at any moment. Michael Sheen narrates the story of how Shostakovich stared down the abyss - and survived.

Current-day South Asian beliefs around career, marriage, and financial status may have underpinnings in long-ago adverse ...