At the height of World War II, Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant British physicist working on the Manhattan Project, secretly passed ...
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 ...
As the Soviet Union rushed to industrialize, millions paid the price. This episode explores how Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan ...
“The intellectuals of the Soviet Union have given birth to a literature of freedom that ranks among the noblest and most heroic since the American Revolution,” wrote Sen. Thomas Dodd of Connecticut, a ...
December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ...
Before power and terror defined him, Joseph Stalin was a young revolutionary in love. Kato Svanidze’s brief life and early ...
ORYOL, Russia (Reuters) - The first Jehovah's Witness detained for extremism in Russia has likened the authorities' behaviour to that of Josef Stalin's Soviet Union ahead of a verdict in his trial.