On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...

The arrest of opposition leader Maxim Kruglov is a blow against the country’s last vestiges of democracy.

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -From railways and automobiles to metals, coal, diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial ...

Health spas have long made fantastical claims for their curative benefits, but Tskaltubo’s “Waters of Immortality” must ...

A Russian court abruptly handed Yuri Dmitriev, a historian of Stalin-era crimes, a 13-year jail term on Tuesday after overturning an earlier sentence on charges that his supporters say were fabricated ...

Here is question that few people have posed or even considered. What will be the fate of Russia after the war in Ukraine ends ...

January is the bleakest month for theater in Chicago. When the temperature drops and the wind roars off Lake Michigan —keeping theatergoers indoors and driving some of the older ones away to Florida — ...

From railways and cars to metals, coal, diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are temporarily ...