In Ukraine's Russian occupied Luhansk, Russians staged a propaganda event aimed at sowing love for Josef Stalin on Valentine's Day. Russian communists and "Komsomol members" decided to congratulate ...

Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor best known for “The Godfather,“ “Apocalypse Now” and many other tough-guy roles over an acclaimed screen career that spanned six decades, has died. He was 95.

Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor whose classic roles included the wily confidant of the first two “Godfather” movies, ...

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over Nikita Khrushchev’s grave at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery stands a memorial made of two interlocking ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and ...

I have in the past received funding from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the ACLS, and the National Endowment for the ...

On Nov. 28, 1925, the Grand Ole Opry (known then as the WSM Barn Dance) debuted on radio station WSM in Nashville, Tennessee; it continues today as the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history.

Going into their 13th season, History Channel’s “The Curse of Oak Island,” brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their team, return with new, bold plans to solve the 228-year-old Oak Island ...

The production studio behind Tilly Norwood, a digital character dubbed Hollywood's first "AI actor," plans to join forces with the History Channel in the Netherlands on an AI-powered time travel ...