Fifty years ago, in November 1975, a political officer in the Soviet Union’s Baltic Fleet launched an armed mutiny in hopes ...

The playground ditty about Hitler’s ‘missing ball’ may have been closer to the truth than anyone imagined. As a new ...

In his memoir, legendary actor Anthony Hopkins dissects how he approached the biggest roles of his career, being bullied as a child and confronting his alcoholism.

The minds of history's most ruthless dictators harbor secrets darker than their public atrocities. While these men projected ...

The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the ...

Gorbachev’s reforms heralded freedoms and an end to the cold war. Three writers raised during the 1980s and ’90s lament the ...

For me, writing is less like a passion and more like the scratching of an itch — because it’s very difficult to be passionate ...

Anthony Hopkins talks about his memoir, recalling when he was sure Laurence Olivier would end his career and why he gives thanks to be alive each day.

Education is one of the main sectors that required immediate reforms for several years.Even though successive regimes harped ...

Whatever form such regroupments take, the Permanent Revolutionary Congress and Kongomano la Mapinduzi share with the ...

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