The police state marching west across Europe, south across Asia, was embodied in the person of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist ...

This bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of what Russians refer to as ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led the USSR for nearly three decades. Khrushchev, emerging as a key player ...

“It’s what guarantees that the officer who beats you will get away with it. Maybe a lack of a union can result in more transparency here.” The Marshall Project previously reported on how a warden ...

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Expect the unexpected. The Cold War empire of the Soviet Union took just four years to tumble into oblivion. And the entire Bronze Age civilisation of the Eastern Mediterranean went from thriving ...

Morgan Freeman will serve as the grand marshal for the Pennzoil 400 NASCAR race in Las Vegas. The race is scheduled for Sunday, March 16 at 2:30 p.m. CT at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Get busy ...