The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict and the largest war in history. World War II changed the world map and geopolitics forever. In this war, America dropped ...

The people “will understand” its significance if the city of Volgograd reverts to its WWII-era name, Gennady Zyuganov has said Read Full Arti ...

Germany holds the world's second-largest gold reserves, 1,236 metric tons, 37 percent of which worth $123 billion are kept at ...

This project begins a series of the main events timed to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet nation’s Great Victory in the ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

The White House denies that classified information was shared when The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group ...

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.

In a major mining region of Ukraine, President Trump’s proposal to collect profits from mineral wealth is meeting with a mix ...

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

Those who lived through the Cold War era will remember the horrors of the time: Wearing identification tags to school, practicing duck-and-cover drills and facing the constant threat of nuclear war.

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...