Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy in modern Russia.

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

IN THE SPRING OF 2022, THE EARLY DAYS and weeks of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine were marked by a drastic hardening of authoritarianism in Russia—or, perhaps more accurately, a drastic plunge from ...

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian in history during a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Internet voting has already generated controversy by temporarily putting ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Devotees of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose brutal purges killed millions of innocent citizens and made his name a byword for totalitarian terror, flocked to the Kremlin to praise ...

The film "The Master And Margarita" has been a big hit in Russia. It's based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name about a popular 1930s Moscow writer suddenly canceled by Stalin's Soviet ...

How a Trump Admin Task Force Is Taking On States That Insist on Boys in Girls’ Sports Man Who Attempted to Kill Brett Kavanaugh Identifies as Transgender Woman, Court Docs Show Former Biden Disinfo ...

Much that only Soviet statesmen knew while the Moscow trials of Old Bolsheviks for “Trotskyism” were being prepared (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante) came out last week as the Russian Cabinet or Council of ...

Moscow was gay and confident. Twice within the week gun salvos announced new successes. The Dnieper had been crossed. Kiev’s recapture was near. The winter’s chill breath was already upon the city, ...