History may be, as Napoleon wrote, the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon, but national histories in the 20th Century left behind something they couldn’t in earlier eras: a ...

Moscow, March 5th 1953. Stalin is dead. One day later, he is lying in state in an open coffin. Over one and a half million people move through the streets of Moscow. A last farewell for the man they ...

Stalin's reign saw millions executed and sent to Gulag prison camps or exile in remote regions, with many released only after his death in 1953. p pulse Follow Die-hard Communists on Monday laid ...

MOSCOW, April 24 -- -- MOSCOW, April 24 -- Thousands of Russians, some weeping, many carrying flowers, lined up Tuesday to bid farewell to Boris Yeltsin, whose body lay in state in a replica of a ...

As a new syndicated columnist in the Washington Times-Herald, eager Tristram Coffin* wanted to start off with a bang. One day last week, the former CBS correspondent came out with the loudest report ...

From Russian émigrés in Paris last week came a Stalin story. The aging dictator, feeling that his days were numbered, was looking around for a burial place. First he tried the tomb of Peter the Great.