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

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

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 ...

In the biting cold of the winter of 1939, the Soviet forces, huddled in their ill-fitting uniforms, trudged through the unforgiving Finnish landscape. The Winter War had begun, and the Soviet military ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

MOSCOW — A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled at one of Moscow’s busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator. The ...

World War II is one of the most significant events in human history. It claimed the lives of millions, devastated the economies of multiple countries, and forever changed life as we knew it. Its ...