In literature, the use of nicknames serves to reveal personality traits that are crucial for character development, and to ...

In 'Motherland', Russian-born American journalist Julia Ioffe shifts the spotlight to the women – from the revolutionary ...

The Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front. It transformed the momentum of the war, shifting the balance of power from Nazi ...

Maria Stalin-Andriasova Named Global Ambassador of Peace for Culture and International Relations. International Understanding Through Music, Art, and Collaborative Artistic and Human Rights Projects: ...

Before the Hamas attacks of October 7, the term genocide – literally meaning the destruction of a race – held a position as the gravest crime a state could commit. It meant Rwanda, Srebrenica and, of ...

From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters and miners to operate as covert agents if Soviet paratroopers ever landed ...

In 1938, Stalin has his military leadership purged, and has thousands of his comrades killed or locked up. The reasons as to ...

Henry Hector Boubel, a Laredo native and WWII veteran, witnessed Japan's surrender, survived pivotal battles, and left a ...

Jochen Hellbeck replies to a critic.

By Jeffrey Dumas The Second World War, the war to end all wars, ended in 1945, 80 years ago, yet a strange fascination about the Nazis persists, including on eastern Long Island. Christopher C. Verga, ...

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...

Kosovo elections rebuff KLA; Ford backs NYC austerity; Nationalist uprising in Puerto Rico; Mikhail Frunze poisoned by Stalin ...