In 1945, before the guns of World War II had even gone silent, Winston Churchill ordered a shocking study: could the Allies ...

In June 1945, British planners warned that any Allied strike on the Soviet Union would explode into total war. Operation ...

Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for ...

Why Trump Has Immunity for His Lawless, Lethal Attacks on the High Seas Trump Moves Closer to an Actual War in Venezuela Finns met Stalin’s invading forces with fierce resistance, aided by neighbors, ...

As events would have it, the news of Alexei Navalny’s death came just two days after I’d finished reading the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography of Joseph Stalin, which covers the period from ...

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 ...

This is a subscriber-exclusive edition of Peacefield, a newsletter about the survival of liberal democracy in the United States, plus contrary, often curmudgeonly takes about everything from nuclear ...

Edward Gibbon sits proudly upon my bookshelf. A set of volumes that I own, neatly stacked, comprises his “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” What do you make of me because it is ...

Wars are won by the nation that can project the most lethal killing power at the fastest speed with the most accuracy. Wars are not won by sending waves of human “cannon fodder” against entrenched ...

FEW neurotics are geniuses. But many geniuses are neurotics. Lev Davidovich Bronstein was more than a little of both. This son of a prosperous Jewish farmer was born in the Ukraine in 1879. He died in ...

A Russian propagandist has called for brutal "methods" used by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to be introduced into the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov told guests on ...