The chilling finale to Poland’s 1939 tragedy is revealed: the mass execution and deportation of its citizens and leaders.

My first thought upon hearing of last weekend’s tragedy in the misty canopy of Smolensk was a professionally selfish one. “Would Ann Applebaum be filing her Slate column on Monday?” Applebaum’s ...

On April 7, 2010, Vladimir Putin traveled to the Katyn forest in Western Russia, in order to join the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in commemorating Stalin’s victims shot and buried there seventy ...

Stalin spoke of the continuity of Soviet policy. If anything were to happen to him, there would be good men ready to step into his shoes. —Winston Churchill in Triumph and Tragedy Georgy Malenkov was ...

By 1933, in the city renamed Leningrad, and Stalin in power, the botanists had collected 148,000 seeds and tubers from across ...

On a recent Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, a dozen people, mostly elderly, gathered in front of an elegant apartment building on a sun-dappled street in central Moscow. Ksenia Polunina stepped up to ...

BYKOVNYA, Ukraine, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine on Saturday reburied some 2,000 people killed by the Soviet secret police before World War Two and dumped in mass graves near the capital. The 1,998 ...

Editor’s Note: Jade McGlynn is a non-resident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of two books, “Russia’s War” and ”Memory Makers: The Politics of the ...

At the Victory Day parade in Moscow on 9 May, former NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the interior ministry of the Soviet Union – ed.) and KGB officers who did not fight during World ...

With the founding of the Fourth International in September 1938, Stalin’s secret police turned all their attention to the assassination of its leader, Leon Trotsky. Barred from residence in almost ...

Seems like everybody out there has his or her own assessment of what's actually happening with respect to the collapse of Joe Biden's presidency and reelection hopes. I'll give you mine in a moment.