The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian in history during a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Internet voting has already generated controversy by temporarily putting ...

Mao Zedong and Stalin are dictators who never fail to appear on lists of the world’s worst tyrants. While some leftist interpretations revere them as great revolutionaries who founded modern China and ...

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

In this conversation, Georgian historian Giorgi Mamulia explains the complex relationship that the Georgian people have with ...

Edward Gibbon sits proudly upon my bookshelf. A set of volumes that I own, neatly stacked, comprises his “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” What do you make of me because it is ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin cleverly manipulated the U.S. and Great Britain during WWII, sowing the seeds for Communist expansion throughout Europe and Asia, according to this richly detailed account.

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian ever as part of a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Online voting... Was Stalin The Greatest Russian In History? Russians have ...