Each of the following captions contains commentary by show curators David Shneer and Lisa Tamiris Becker. Grief, Kerch, Crimea, January 1942 One of the earliest Holocaust liberation photographs, Grief ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand plan to divide Eastern ...

It was movie night at the Kremlin. The date was May 23, 1943. The Red Army had defeated the Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad only three months earlier. For the first time, it looked like the Allies ...

CLINTON - Like Joseph Stalin’s ghost, a collection of Soviet propaganda posters brings alive the specter of communist ideology in a fascinating exhibition at the Museum of Russian Icons. Ranging from ...

Violence ricochets from wall to wall in “Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945.” Based on a long-overlooked Art Institute collection, the show offers an encyclopedic ...

A joke is making the rounds among Vladimir Putin’s opponents in Moscow: His two main accomplishments as Russia's president are Yuri Gagarin’s trip to space and Russia’s victory in World War II. This ...

MOSCOW, July 24. /TASS/. Polish legislation banning communist propaganda is not targeting monuments to Soviet soldiers, it is aimed at propaganda of totalitarian ideologies, Poland’s Ambassador to ...

The CIA attempted to recruit Winston Churchill to deliver radio broadcasts that would turn listeners against Communism, new documents have revealed. American intelligence officers are said to have ...

As a Polish American journalist and a media freedom advocate, I would like to end Black History Month by honoring an African American news reporter and writer. Homer Smith, Jr. (1909-1972) was a ...