Joseph Stalin’s plan to modernize the Soviet Union’s economy, beginning in 1928, carried enormous cost for the country—especially in its human toll. Agricultural collectivization disrupted the food ...
The Russian Bolsheviks cemented their power after the October revolution and the civil war that followed, thanks to bloody ...
Soviet propaganda was more than just posters of smiling workers and strong leaders, it was a psychological tool designed to grow a profound sense of paranoia. From anti-religious posters to haunting ...
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. To appreciate the power of a myth, let’s take a quick visit to post-Soviet ...
In conjunction with the war against the Soviet Union which began in June 1941, the Italian Fascist regime promulgated a virulent brand of anti-communism and oversaw a campaign of hate-mongering ...
Stephen Norris is a professor of Russian history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Norris studies Russian history, nationalism, media, and propaganda. Norris told Insider Putin's speeches have ...
Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging through stacks of 19th century drawings when they stumbled upon something strange. It was a nondescript box with the vague label ...
The British Foreign Secretary William Hague visits Kiev’s Independence Square as talks with Ukrainian officials continue. The British Foreign Secretary William Hague visits Kiev’s Independence Square ...
In 1962, before the protests in Italy, before the Florence flood, before Archizoom, Andrea Branzi took a trip to Moscow and ...