Stalin promotes an image of himself as a great benevolent leader and hero of the Soviet Union. Yet he is increasingly paranoid and purges the Communist party and Army of anyone who might oppose him.

Boris Gromov, a hero of the Soviet Union, Afghan war veteran and former Moscow Region governor, told TASS in an interview. "I’d like to stress that our troops are acting courageously and with ...

This year—25 years after the Soviet Union’s collapse—I went back again, to meet these young people like Sasha. Who are they? What do they want from their lives? What do they want for Russia?

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom ...

As a hero of the Revolutionary War ... a real person with both reprehensible and admirable traits. In the Soviet Union, however, most citizens found it difficult to think historically about ...

"Georgia currently is ruled by an oligarch who has a very Russian agenda," says Tamara Arveladze, 26, who has joined the ...

A solemn laying of wreaths at the Soviet military cemetery in the municipality of Oberwart (federal state of Burgenland) took place on ...

Growing up, journalist Michael Visontay knew that his Hungarian-born father had survived Auschwitz (while losing his own mother there), and that the family had ultimately emigrated to Australia after ...

Gorbachev justified his “restructuring” or perestroika by invoking the Soviet Union’s founding father, Vladimir Lenin. He did so, however, by observing that the historical Lenin had pragmatically ...

One of the most moving songs to emerge from the October 7 war, is a paean of praise to reservists sung by Hatikva 6 called “Superheroes.” It tells the story of how ordinary people – a ...