Aside from the incredible amount of deaths during the Communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union, an often overlooked key ...

The culture and tradition of the University of Notre Dame eerily parallels the propaganda of the Soviet Union. One would ...

The Russian Bolsheviks cemented their power after the October revolution and the civil war that followed, thanks to bloody repression and conscienceless crackdowns. But it was all in name of a greater ...

Joseph Stalin’s plan to modernize the Soviet Union’s economy, beginning in 1928, carried enormous cost for the country—especially in its human toll. Agricultural collectivization disrupted the food ...

It was an imperialist act because it divided part of European territory between two countries. From 1939 to 1941, the Soviet Union was an ally of Germany on the Eastern Front, supplying it with the ...

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. To appreciate the power of a myth, let’s take a quick visit to post-Soviet ...

Soviet propaganda was more than just posters of smiling workers and strong leaders, it was a psychological tool designed to grow a profound sense of paranoia. From anti-religious posters to haunting ...

Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging through stacks of 19th century drawings when they stumbled upon something strange. It was a nondescript box with the vague label ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand ...

"Nazi criminals who escaped justice became welcome guests on Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe broadcasting into the Soviet Union," the Federal Security Service said MOSCOW, May 6. /TASS/. Nazi ...