Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Stalin’s purges in the 1930s involved show trials and mass executions. His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, pursued “de-Stalinization,” aiming to end repression and create a more efficient and ...

Last month, the authorities in Moscow unveiled a statue of Stalin in one of the city’s underground stations. The monument is a replica of the original, which was removed in 1966 during the Soviet ...

Critics invoked the specter of 2003 and the quagmire of Iraq. Opinion pieces warned of regional blowback and a united front ...

KHRUSHCHEV’S DENUNCIATION OF STALIN The most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev’s three-hour secret address to the 20th Congress of the party in February. Ever ...

The State Department released today the full text of the speech which Nikita Khrushchev delivered at the Communist Party congress in Moscow on February 24, denouncing Josef Stalin and revealing ...

The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with ...

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most ...

Backed by Joseph Stalin and later Nikita Khrushchev, scientist Trofim Lysenko was able to promote pseudo-scientific theories based on Lamarckian inheritance, which rejected established genetic ...

In February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered his “secret speech” to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, in which he denounced some of Stalin’s crimes, but deliberately excluded ...