Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim Ribbentrop sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact, as Joseph Stalin looks on. August 23, 1939. Today is the 80th anniversary of the ...

This article was originally posted on Twitter. Seventy years ago, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died at the age of 73. To the extent that the worst defeats of the working class in the 20th century ...

On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with Stephen Kotkin, a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union who has just published the massive second volume of his Joseph Stalin ...

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. And we’re continuing our series of interviews with Peter Kuznick. He’s the coauthor of the book and the ...

In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to live up to that promise. By Jennifer Szalai En 1945, el mapa de Europa se ...

Armando Inannucci is probably best known in the United States as the creator of the HBO hit series “Veep.” That’s going to change when his new movie “The Death of Stalin” starts rolling out on screens ...