Finkel, a historian and political scientist, offers a nuanced and highly readable account of the complex history of Ukraine from medieval times to the ongoing Russian invasion.

In the former, Silova says universities “adapted” to the Nazis’ takeover of government, and once Hitler had control he “moved ...

In the Ukraine war, it is artillery that has enabled tactically clumsy Russian infantry and armor to advance. Stalin once called it the "god of war." ...

Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but Tony Gilroy's series takes a key plot from a bank heist ...

A biting satire from the man behind Alan Partridge and The Thick of It is leaving Netflix in just a few days time ...

Authoritarians throughout the twentieth century employed the same method after usurping power either democratically or by ...

Isaak Dunayevsky, the USSR's most famous and highly paid pop composer, twice winner of the Stalin Prize, was the most ...