Meaningful change in Russia is unlikely without defeat. Lessons from Germany show how accountability and reform follow war.

The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's deep-seated fear of flying created ripple effects across global diplomacy during World ...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is revisiting the music of Stalin's Russia. We hear about Stalin's "Edifice Complex," and one American's experience as an architect working for the dictator. Plus, the ...

In the shadow of the headquarters of Russia's FSB security service, formerly the home of the Soviet-era KGB, people came to lay flowers this week.

When Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker in 1945, he was directly responsible for the deaths of more than ten ...