Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but in recent years new statues have cropped up, including one this week.

The rate of societal change and scope of consequences—led by technology and demographics—have quickened far, far beyond the glacial pace at which over 99 percent of human history unfolded.

Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great ...

The arts possess a truth-telling power to shape and narrate our shared history — a power to change whose stories are told, ...

For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a professor ...

Professor Timothy Snyder has moved to the University of Toronto due to his concerns about the erosion of democratic norms in the United States, and his departure symbolizes a growing belief among some ...

As the former congresswoman and Orlando police chief writes, the arrest of a U.S. House member is a tipping point in Donald Trump’s abuse of the justice system.

After nearly two weeks of exciting premieres, star-studded press conferences and beachside parties that go into the early ...

Alexander Chalenko’s An Up-to-Date History of Novorossiya (St. Petersburg, 2023) provides a useful insight into one of the ...

RP tries to reconcile verbal invocations of revolution, internationalism and Trotskyism with its own ties to Stalinist, social-democratic or bourgeois liberal parties and national union bureaucracies ...

Last week saw the unveiling of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya Station, a replica of a piece that ...

“There’s some very weird, strange and dangerous sh*t going on out there right now, “pontificated Bruce Springsteen at a recent show in Manchester England. ”In America, they are persecuting ...