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

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 ...

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 ...

The same Cold War rocket built to carry a nuclear warhead across continents became the vehicle that launched humanity into ...

It was movie night at the Kremlin. The date was May 23, 1943. The Red Army had defeated the Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad only three months earlier. For the first time, it looked like the Allies ...

Sergei Mikhalkov, 96, an author favored by Stalin who wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems, persecuted dissident writers as part of the Soviet propaganda machine and fathered ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman ...