On April 12, the acrobatic performers known as Circa presented their show Opus, thanks to Arizona Arts Live. The performance ...

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

Known as the Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter, Nazis issued a blue cross medal emblazoned with a swastika and something ...

Zurab Tsereteli, a Russian-Georgian sculptor, painter and architect known for his large-scale and sometimes divisive works, ...

Teodoro Castro or Iosif Grigulevich? Costa Rica’s ambassador to Yugoslavia was a Soviet spy sent to kill Tito. O n the ...

Moscow as a “revolutionary sanctuary,” attracting British suffragettes, Irish revolutionaries, German communists, and others dreaming of justice and equality.

Isaak Dunayevsky, the USSR's most famous and highly paid pop composer, twice winner of the Stalin Prize, was the most ...

President Lech Kaczynski was killed alongside his wife, as well as a string of other senior Polish political figures and ...

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Smolensk crash which killed all 96 on board, including the President of Poland.

CITY NOTESThe passing of Professor Khurshid Ahmad probably did not create as much of a stir as it would have once, for at 93 ...

The corporation defended a video aimed at children, which critics say presents a "dishonest" view of communism.

In The Death Of Stalin, perhaps the world’s foremost historian of the Soviet era, Sheila Fitzpatrick, gives us the full ...