At Moscow’s central Taganskaya metro station, commuters stream past a newly-restored monument to a former ruler whose reputation is undergoing a dramatic revision in Russia: Joseph Stalin.

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

The government is forging ahead with its ambitious education reform package, amidst protests by teachers’ trade unions, ...

The Russian Communist Party (CPRF) has formally announced its intention to rehabilitate the image of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, passing a resolutio ...

Vladimir Putin once had police raid a cinema showing a film for breaching a very specific law. Putin has never been a leader ...

Trump’s behaviour is complicating a range of international crises. The media was taken aback last week by a photograph of a ...

The meeting will end in the usual whimper with a fleeting sideways glance at productivity, where business groups have already ...

It was 8am at Tbilisi Central Station, and the 870 service had seen better days. Faded Soviet-era wagons waited on the tracks, the red and white livery of Georgian Railways hidden beneath thick layers ...

The Government is on the brink of launching a comprehensive education reform initiative in 2026 aimed at overhauling the ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.