Across continents and decades, these ‘praetorian guards’ have acted as both shield and sword, protecting rulers while enforcing fear. Their names change, their uniforms differ, but their mission remai ...

On Jan. 14, 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other leaders in ...

As the Ukraine war drags, Moscow is transforming the economy of the occupied Donbas region, residents and analysts say.

Stalin, the Nazis and the West is a 2008 six-episode BBC/PBS documentary series on the role of Joseph Stalin and ...

Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.

The secretary of state’s failure to include South Korea within the U.S. defensive perimeter in Asia in a January 1950 speech ...

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili was born to a poor shoemaker's wife, but under another name he would shake the world.

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

The Cheshire Cat’s vanishing smile in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a trick whereby the cat fades away ...

First, the country was a Nazi ally; then it became a NATO stooge. The latest allegation: It’s a reckless Russia-basher that ...

At the height of World War II, Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant British physicist working on the Manhattan Project, secretly passed ...

In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.