His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

Lessons from the conflict are still important to the Finnish Army, especially the Jaeger Brigade, which specializes in Arctic ...

Germany’s division after World War II was one of the defining moments of 20th-century history, as it was a physical and ...

A fter World War II, peace-loving Sweden began working on a nuclear bomb to stave off a feared Soviet invasion. But in the ...

When the 105-day war ended, almost 400,000 Soviet soldiers had been killed or wounded or were missing. The Kremlin reported minor losses. Vladimir Putin, a Stalin admirer, should have studied the ...

Like his wife, Ellis was struck by what he described as “the utter drabness of life” in the Soviet Union. The country, of ...

Jason Isaacs, Josh Gad, and Ruth Negga are set to star in a new World War 2 dark comedy, Bad Major, from the writer of Death of Stalin.

At a time of political crisis and uncertainty for Jews in the main Anglophone democracies, Adam J Sacks suggests that Western Diaspora communities examine the lessons from the history of the ...

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

The Pacific during the Second World War was the largest battlefield in history, yet all but a tiny fraction of it was water. As a direct result the flying boat was of particular value in this realm, ...

The White House too often exaggerates or ignores the real degrees of danger posed by perceived major threats of the time.

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 ...