The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

For years, Hitler signaled his ambitions, avoided a genuine partnership with Moscow, and eventually positioned enormous ...

A letter of thanks from Premier Joseph Stalin to a group of Jewish collective farmers in the Jewish autonomous region of Biro-Bidjan who contributed over a quarter of a million roubles to a fund to ...

The noted Russian-Jewish violinist, David Oistrakh recent winner of a Stalin prize for outstanding work in 1942, has turned over to the Red Army Fund the 100,000 rubles (about $20,000) awarded him, it ...

The destruction of the French fleet at Mers el-Kébir, Algeria, by the Royal Navy in July 1940 was both Britain’s first victory of the second world war and its most distasteful. Winston Churchill had ...