This new, more polluted, information environment has real-world impact. For our institutions (however imperfect they may be), ...

Internet users berated news outlet Reuters for referring to Joseph Stalin’s legacy as "polarizing" in a story recognizing the 70th anniversary of the Soviet leader’s death. Reuters published a piece ...

It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders getting a birthday party like the one thrown Monday at Moscow’s Ismailovsky Hotel for the former despot, Josef Stalin. The grand hall was packed ...

An example of this conflict occurred in the 1920s when Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, rejected natural selection in ...

Most people hate to speak ill of the dead. They look for something nice to say about even the not-so-dear departed. People’s natural imperfections usually seem to shrink when they leave this earth.

In August of 1941, the Soviet Union was struggling to defend the Motherland against the fierce Nazi forces piercing its borders. The Red Army stretched across the frontline, thinning its troops to ...

Jonathan Brent expresses surprise—if not shock and disgust—at what he sees as the rehabilitation of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in contemporary Russia (“Postmodern Stalinism,” The Chronicle Review, ...

The images from Ukraine in recent days have been shocking, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to descend even lower into the realm of pure evil than he’s already gone if he hopes to do to ...

The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of war, but he remains a deeply divisive figure in Russia. By Ivan Nechepurenko ...