By tracing Joseph Stalin’s path to power, this article highlights the warning signs of authoritarianism and the conditions ...

When Josef Stalin finally succumbed to the stroke he so richly deserved, a distraught Pablo Neruda mourned the death of this “giant. … the noon, the maturity of man and the peoples.” Such attitudes ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series consisting of the Yuri Primakov’s recollections of the Nazi-Soviet war of 1941-45. The first part, which covers the period from the summer of 1941 ...