Seventy years after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "gifted" the Palace of Culture and Science to Warsaw, the towering ...

Ekaterina Zadirko, a Slavonic Studies researcher at Trinity College, Cambridge, studied 25 diaries written between 1930 and 1941. Most of the documents had never been studied before and preserved the ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and trying to fit in; but also experience of famine, exile ...

The battlecruisers were designed to project power and deter Western navies, but their obsolescence in the face of carrier-based warfare and the immense cost of construction rendered them utterly ...

The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

Revolution, Meir Abramovich Trilisser, the forerunner of the KGB, introduced the “illegals” as a weapon into an ...

The Soviet ‘illegals’ program trained and embedded spies who lived surreptitiously in the West – just like TV’s The Americans. Who were they, and did they really go away?

The Russian Communist Party (CPRF) has formally announced its intention to rehabilitate the image of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, passing a resolutio ...

People walk in front of the newly erected statue of Joseph Stalin at the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, in May 2025.

One Joseph Stalin was one too many. The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in ...

A full-length sculptural relief of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appeared last week in Moscow’s Taganskaya metro station, as part of what have been described as efforts to restore original ...

At the central Taganskaya station, a new statue has been unveiled. It is of one of Russia's most well-known and controversial leaders, Joseph Stalin, a man who killed millions. Some have welcomed ...