Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has died at the age of 86. Few men in the modern world have ...

Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator. His name stands both for the rise ...

One of our family's privileges was the "Kremlin lunch." He relied on the old Bolsheviks, that is, his grandfather, cost him ...

A serious development on the left is the rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin. A systematic left-wing critique of the new wave of Stalinist revisionism has been missing, until now.

Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, would have been 100 years old today, and she is one of history’s curios ...

After Joseph Stalin took power in the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky fled to Mexico. The ensuing plot to eliminate him took years ...

Four years to the day since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion, Sky News looks at the impact of the conflict across Ukraine - and how Russia has brought war to its own cities like ...

ON FEBRUARY 24 1956, 10 days after it opened in Moscow, delegates to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s (CPSU) 20th ...

On November 3rd, we commemorated the 40th death anniversary of E.H.Carr who made an outstanding contribution as a liberal historian and gave a new dimension to method of historical research. Carr was ...

​​When Stalin died in March 1953 there seemed to be, as far as we can ascertain, a great outpouring of genuine grief across the USSR.

A new book offers a fresh timely look at Leon Trotsky, perpetrator and victim of Soviet communism. Stephen Kotkin, a Stalin ...

The Qarabag FK journey is a story of transformation, which began in the early 1950s in Aghdam, a city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.