The Soviets pre-empt a German offensive with one of their own in the south of the Eastern Front, but that's not the only fighting. The skies over Malta and the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence are ...

Russia under Joseph Stalin offers a tragic example of what happens when political propagandists view science as enemy. Photo via Shutterstock. This was the year when the president of the United States ...

Fitzpatrick, a preeminent historian of the Soviet Union, offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy ...

Political tumult broke out last week with the loud echoing of Joseph Stalin’s words of the week before. “… Only one thing is required: that the Allies fulfill their obligations fully and on time.” The ...

Former national security adviser John Bolton compared the Trump administration to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s secret police following his indictment on Thursday. “I have become the latest target ...

The battlecruisers were designed to project power and deter Western navies, but their obsolescence in the face of carrier-based warfare and the immense cost of construction rendered them utterly ...

Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating ...

Although many in the modern day associate the Soviet Union with Russia, it was one of the world’s largest multi-ethnic states, comprised of 15 republics. The Soviet Union’s first census, conducted in ...

A Red Orchid Theatre has announced a one-week extension of its world premiere production of SIX MEN DRESSED LIKE JOSEPH STALIN, written by Dianne Nora and directed by Ensemble Member dado. Originally ...

In the passageway one walks down to progress from A Red Orchid Theatre’s ticketing booth to its main stage, a wall beside the bathroom is busied with block text and black-and-white photographs, which ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

Comrade Stalin is back — at least underground. A monument to the Soviet dictator, once torn down, has been replicated and reinstalled in a Moscow metro station. The original statue, depicting Joseph ...