FROM being ravaged by bloody World War I to being carved up by Hitler and Stalin during World War II, Poland endured the ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could ...

Soviet dictator Josef Stalin tossed out most Western reporters well before World War II began, and he certainly didn't want them back when his forces were being routed by Nazi Germany in the early ...

Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the communist ...

Bouverie may have written the best single volume overview of the diplomatic wrangling among the Great Powers during World War II.

Built to outgun the Tiger and Panther, the Soviet IS-2 entered service in 1944 with thick sloped armor and a 122 mm gun that ...

Jochen Hellbeck replies to a critic.

In 1938, Stalin has his military leadership purged, and has thousands of his comrades killed or locked up. The reasons as to why he did it are still open for debate.

Charging angrily that Albania “deliberately keeps aggravating relations with the Soviet Union,” Russia last week ordered its ambassador in Tirana to pack up and come home. In turn, Albania’s ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...