Through his 24 years in power, President Vladimir Putin has sought to revise Russia's historical narrative and its ...

Vladimir Solovyov said that Moscow "should destroy every dam" in the U.S. if America gives Russia an ultimatum in the Ukraine ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

a psychopath – I’ve heard Joseph Stalin described as many things but never as a pet possum. That’s what Archibald Clark Kerr, ...

The Soviet Union had ambitious plans to build a powerful aircraft carrier fleet but never fully realized these goals. Despite ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29, 1949 the assembled bomb was wheeled ...

Joseph Stalin was determined to get his country ... The president also wanted the Soviet Union to declare war on Japan. Though the tide had dramatically turned against the Japanese Empire, their ...

Criminal Justice Abstracts "This erudite, calmly reasoned book should be the starting point for all who want to understand how the Soviet Union was ruled ... "This large work on criminal justice under ...

That is, they believed—and believed passionately—that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, not the United States, represented the wave of the future. Guided by Joseph Stalin, the USSR was ...

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum. The closure was ...