Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre ...

Step back in time and explore some of the creepiest and most chilling abandoned places from the Soviet era. From decaying ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

W ATCH RUSSIAN television or listen to Vladimir Putin’s chilling speeches, and Russia is a besieged fortress, struggling to ...

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

Opening on June 18, a new exhibition at London’s GRAD Gallery looks at images of women in Soviet propaganda, from the beginning of the Russian Revolution in 1917 to the end of perestroika in ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s effort to ban Pride backfired, drawing a huge throng in support of LGBTQ+ rights and hurting ...

They are 1) Soviet Communism, 2) Maoism, 3) Castroism and 4) reformist Communism as it occurs in two sub-variants: ... Art and literature must conform to the precepts of “socialist realism; ...

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural ...

The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. At this ...

Tove Jansson was a trailblazing illustrator and author—and the inventor of the beloved Moomins, the central characters of her ...