Seven decades ago, in the early hours of February 25, 1956, inside the precincts of the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, stood before a ...

​​When Stalin died in March 1953 there seemed to be, as far as we can ascertain, a great outpouring of genuine grief across the USSR.

This suppression of socialist ideas serves to channel the explosive potential of youth into mere harmless appeals to politicians, while the ruling class prepares an entire generation for war.

Eric and Eliot debate the merits and deficiencies of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s attempt to present “Trumpism with a human face” at the Munich Security Conference before turning to the dilemmas ...

Loren Goldner, October 18, 1947 to April 12, 2024, ¡Presente! Rest in peace, power, and solidarity, comrade!

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The government of Pedro Sánchez has spent years invoking "historical memory" to disguise the manipulation of history by the ...

MOSCOW — Anna Akhmatova, the poet, died today, after a lifetime of controversy. According to Tass, the Soviet press agency, her age was 76.

During the early Cold War, Western intelligence launched secret operations to overthrow Albania’s Stalinist regime. Exiles were trained, armed, and inserted back into the country. Most were ...

In the first half of 2025, the most stolen item was the Russian constitution, which guarantees free speech and forbids censorship. Hence, a Russian joke: “We read Orwell for his reflection of ...

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

Thursday’s action was a further indication of the mass social anger against Modi’s far-right, Hindu supremacist government and the state of Indian society more generally.