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

This video explains why Joseph Stalin’s image has regained prominence in modern Russia by examining the historical, ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...

Mark B Smith’s magnificent new history, Exit Stalin, lays bare the reality of daily life during the USSR’s death spiral ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's ...

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Detained in a penal colony in Mordovia, the 70-year-old historian, who specializes in the Stalin regime's crimes, is one of ...

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the pre-revolutionary era and Soviet power.

In the pre-Stalin Soviet Union of the 1920s and ’30s, there was a dynamic creativity in the arts, including in one of the newest forms of media: film. Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde, out now ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and ...