Hundreds of activists, lawyers, and politicians have been pursued and jailed, or chased into exile. But few have captured ...

Hong Kong's prominent Catholic, media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been convicted of national security ...

La Scala opens its new season on Sunday with Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, an ...

JOEY Barton has arrived at court for sentencing after he shared vile posts comparing female football pundits to Fred and Rose West. The former footballer lashed out at Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward ...

History sometimes hides its greatest heroes in plain sight. Among those whose brilliance illuminated distant horizons—yet ...

This biography follows Stalin from his early life in Georgia to his emergence as the USSR’s authoritarian ruler, examining ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against ...

Fitzpatrick, a preeminent historian of the Soviet Union, offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy ...

The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder and leader of the Church of ...

Former national security adviser John Bolton compared the Trump administration to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s secret police following his indictment on Thursday. “I have become the latest target ...

Months before World War II ended, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin secretly divided their spheres of influence in the Balkans. Photo of the two leaders from a Moscow conference in 1942. Public ...