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

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.

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

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 ...

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

Relatives that reveal the location of soldiers on the front line should be punished, a warning published by Northern Fleet ...

Many believe that history is largely determined by the personal relationships between world leaders. Vladimir Putin’s 25-year ...

Because of Central Asia’s isolation from the world during the Soviet era, these artists remain little studied outside the ...

80 years ago, on Jan. 17, 1945, Soviet and Polish military formations entered Warsaw bringing an end to years of Nazi occupation—however, this did not bring liberation but a new wave of terror and ...

British schoolchildren preferred Joseph Stalin out of all the commanders of the Second World War. This was stated by a member ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...