Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

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 ...

A story from the first wartime meeting between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin goes like this. FDR was housed at the Soviet legation in Tehran, Iran. One morning the Soviet dictator looked in on ...

John Cheyne and William Stokes were nineteenth-century doctors who described a sort of labored, interrupted respiration sometimes seen among the dying. Their names have been part of everyday Russian ...

Stalin’s War: A New History of WWII, by Sean McMeekin (Basic Books: 2021), 864 pages. The peoples of the Russian Federation—despite the imperishable cynicism that so many express on matters ...

A PAPER in Belgrade recently printed a cartoon showing a lighthouse enveloped in mists and assaulted by waves, yet flashing steady beams of light east and west. The lighthouse was marked “KPJ,” ...