As Lenin's health starts to fail, the struggle to become his successor picks up speed with Stalin maneuvering closer and closer to power. The outcome of this struggle will define a century of world ...

In February 1956, Khrushchev stunned the Soviet leadership by denouncing Joseph Stalin’s cult of personality and mass terror, ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

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

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...

A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's ...

Emilie Kiser isn’t sugar coating her emotions. Five months after her and husband Brady Kiser’s son Trigg Kiser died following an accidental drowning in their family’s pool, the TikTok influencer ...