On 18 September 1964, during a no-confidence motion against his government, India’s former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri ...

Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.

But during the Great Purge he was arrested and tortured; he confessed to having worked undercover for Russia’s enemies and ...

The people “will understand” its significance if the city of Volgograd reverts to its WWII-era name, Gennady Zyuganov has ...

Trump’s Oval Office Spectacle: When Power Becomes a Stage for Humiliation.

Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...

Why would Russia risk encirclement between a hostile Europe to the west and an alienated China to the southeast?

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

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

This was a phenomenon of the post-Stalin period, and specifically of the second half of the 1960s and the 1970s: the aftermath of Khrushchev’s Thaw, which happens to be the period in which I first ...

This was a phenomenon of the post-Stalin period, and specifically of the second half of the 1960s and the 1970s: the aftermath of Khrushchev’s Thaw, which happens to be the period in which I first ...