Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him into ...

Before power and terror defined him, Joseph Stalin was a young revolutionary in love. Kato Svanidze’s brief life and early ...

Is there any point to another Stalin biography? Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill in ...

Maj Gen Paul Eaton warned The Guardian that loyalty tests and firings risk lasting damage to the U.S. military's independence ...