One line, however, has continued to sound ominously in my ears: “Compared to the three thousand writers arrested under Stalin,” writes Krielaars, “the composers got off lightly.” ...

Stalin’s successor Khrushchev denounces the dead dictator and begins a wave of "destalinization." From schoolboy failure to wartime hero, Winston Churchill's astonishing life has made him a ...

Joseph Stalin will soon have a life-size statue of his own in northwestern Russia, with the local governor saying the ...

Hope against Hope is a testimony of life under Stalin, and of the ways in which ordinary people challenge and capitulate to power. It’s also a compendium of gossip, an account of psychological torture ...