This video explains why two sworn enemies, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, suddenly signed a non-aggression pact in August 1939—how Hitler’s desperation to attack Poland, Stalin’s territorial ...

As the Red Army closed in, Stalin turned the final assault into a ruthless competition. Zhukov and Konev were ordered to race ...

The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War; by Alan Philps; Pegasus Books; 464 pp, $29.95 During World War II, the Metropol provided a base for a ...

DUEL FOR EUROPE — John Scoff —Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). When Stalin set the European tinder-box ablaze by signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler in August 1939, the civilized world gasped: How ...

Historian Gellately's (Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany) new work insists on Lenin's inclusion in any effort to understand the two major and deadly dictatorships of 20th-century ...

How political ideology and violence can lay waste to scientific achievement, and the resilience and resolve of scientists committed to their mission despite persecution, war and starvation, is the ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Director Oliver Stone's upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries "Secret History of America" promises to put mass-murderers such as Stalin and Hitler "in context." ...

Ana Navarro denigrated President-elect Donald Trump’s selection as Time’s “Person of the Year” Friday, noting a number of 20th Century authoritarians had also taken home the award. Trump, who ...

On a day filled with reporting about Donald Trump’s admiration for despots and dictators and clear desires to emulate them, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum warned in an essay published ...