This episode traces the Soviet secret police from the Tsarist Okhrana to the Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, and finally the KGB, showing how a security apparatus evolved into a system built on surveillance, ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead ...

No, not next Saturday at Knockdown Center—it’s “The Wild Party,” Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s musicalization ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before Russia started pushing migrants across the two countries’ roughly 830-mile ...

They shaped a superpower, commanded global attention, and left behind legacies marked by fear and control. The most notorious leaders of the Soviet Union weren't just political figures: they were ...

In the world of global power, where secret networks intertwine with personal ambitions, figures like Jeffrey Epstein represent the modern archetype of a manipulator who uses influence, money, and ...

The city of Almaty in Kazakhstan is currently demolishing the house where Leon Trotsky spent several weeks in exile from the Stalinist bureaucracy. The demolition erases an important testimony to the ...

From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Mark Patinkin has witnessed what led to the collapse of certain nations.

Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.” ...

Trump and his aides think the United States has global leverage that his predecessors refused to use. He seems to forget that ...

As Reform UK top the polls, Labour moves right and Tommy Robinson leads huge nationalist marches, it is easy to despair. But that is exactly what the people funding the far-right hope for: that decent ...