She is a Sovietologist, to use a once-common term. She is enlightening — sometimes profound — on Stalin, the Soviet Union, and totalitarian society in general. She had great material ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President ... The United States and the Soviet Union each wanted their own economic and ...

Following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, Ukraine failed to escape Soviet control. Stalin’s collectivization ... million more across the Soviet Union — died of starvation.

In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag ... forest These are some of the ruins of Josef Stalin’s abortive “Transpolar Mainline” railway.