Julius D’Silva’s chief negotiator Vyacheslav Molotov is underused, but Alan Cox is quite delightful as the dependable ...

As if the Soviet left did not know what its right was doing, Soviet hymn singers called the tune the Old Bolshevik Hymn. In 1939 it was awarded the coveted Stalin Prize. Its recent metamorphosis ...

Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher known for his eclectic blend of psychoanalysis, Marxism, and cultural critique, continues to challenge conventional thinking on global politics, war, and the ...

The Tamil Nadu government has announced its decision to boycott the Republic Day tea party to be hosted by Governor R.N. Ravi at the Raj Bhavan on January 26.

Respected writers about Russia and Communism crossed ideological swords about not the one – but the two – revolutions that took place in 1917.The first was in February, without a significant Bolshevik ...

The Tamil Nadu government announced groundbreaking archaeological research that revealed iron production origins in the state. According to Chief Minister MK Stalin, the latest research challenged ...

I first visited the looted museums of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, in May 2024. At the time, my team at the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit and I were beginning an ...

The Tamil Nadu CM, in letters to his counterparts and the Union education minister, has voiced concern over the threat posed to academic integrity and autonomy of state varsities Listen to Story ...

Joseph interviewed for the Jets’ and Las Vegas Raiders’ head coach openings. New York’s position has now been filled. Las Vegas is yet to make its hire. Elsewhere in the hiring cycle ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin reiterated his determination to assert the state’s rights over education, confirming that the legal fight against the Union government will persist. He criticized ...

John Kane-Berman writes on the famines that Stalin visited on that land Among the things the tsars, the Bolsheviks, and Vladimir Putin have in common is antipathy to the notion of an independent ...

Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the secret police who, along with Bukharin, was condemned to death in the last show trial of old Bolsheviks in 1938, was so fond of Mandelstam’s Stalin poem that he ...