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 February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered what would become known as the “Secret Speech.” This ...

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

Russia designates Nina Khrushcheva, great-granddaughter of Soviet leader Khrushchev, as a foreign agent, escalating tensions over Ukraine criticism.

Cellphone internet disruptions have gripped the Russian capital for more than a week, derailing the daily routine for ...

Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator. His name stands both for the rise ...

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

Air strikes have never dislodged a regime, and Robert Pape argues they will only deepen Trump’s foreign-policy dilemmas.

March 5 marks significant historical events, including the Boston Massacre in 1770, which fueled the American Revolution.

Hitler’s empire of blame went down in flames, and the empire of his spiritual heirs in Iran appears to be meeting a similar ...

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Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident historian who exposed Stalin’s brutality but later endorsed Putin He was the first historian to calculate the number of Stalin’s victims: ‘Not one of the tyrants of the ...