Stalin’s death brought an uncertain pause – a fleeting hope that the days ahead might be quieter. For those who longed for ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

No one.” Nikita Khrushchev supported Stalin’s purges and even partici-pated in them. For 10 years Khrushchev, a Russian, was the Communist Party’s leader in the Ukraine, and from that post ...

A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev at the Kremlin in 1936. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

abandonment of Stalin’s system of sowing grain fields to grass every few years.* Instead of allowing almost half the valuable land to lie fallow, Khrushchev decreed that farmers henceforth will ...

Several Soviet leaders were worried that Beria was hoping to become as powerful as Stalin had been. And so in July of that year, Nikita Khrushchev arranged to have him arrested, denouncing him as ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has swiped another page from the authoritarian playbook. His verbal assault on Ukrainian ...

Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as head of the Soviet Communist Party, on March 14 1953, just nine days after Stalin’s death. In 11 years, the gregarious commissar left his mark on the world.

One of history’s most notorious dictators, Joseph Stalin, regularly demeaned my great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, and his politburo colleagues. As Khrushchev recounted much later ...