Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...

Chris Bambery explains why the allies’ leaderships in the Second World War were fighting neither for democracy nor against ...

On Monday, four European countries issued statements against the Kremlin's propaganda campaign: Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia ...

A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in ...

Almost six years of bloodshed and brutality tore through Europe, North Africa, Asia and the Pacific, leaving an estimated 45 ...

The newly restored 1,000-square-foot mural, unveiled in January 2025, now looks much as it did when it was completed in 1934.

This month, May 8, marks V-E Day. For those veteran readers of this column, you may recognize that acronym, for the younger readers, perhaps not. It was, though, for millions of people, one of the ...

Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about ...

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

The new name, “Stalingrad International,” commemorates Soviet WWII victory, reflecting growing Soviet nostalgia and authoritarian symbolism as part of broader efforts to justify Putin’s war in Ukraine ...

NOTE: This post largely reprints last year's Victims of Communism Day post, with some modifications. Today is May Day. Since ...