Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...

A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying terrorism," the Prosecutor General's ...

Borders, passports, and national anthems—these are the hallmarks of a country, right? Well, not always. Some places act like ...

Details regarding Anatoliy Golitsyn have been unredacted in the latest release of files about the assassination of President ...

Filip Kovacevic chronicles a previously unpublicized operation by the Soviet Lithuanian state security service targeting a Jesuit priest in Berlin and his contacts in Lithuania between 1945 and 1954.

In the 1920s and ’30s, clerks at The Times collected stamps from overseas mail. The postage tells of a fluid world history.

In 1984, the protagonist, Winston Smith, cites the slogans of the “Ministry of Truth” as “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength,” while bemoaning the eyes of “Big Brother” that ...

In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] Newsweek has compiled a list of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) Forever Stamps available for purchase on the ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

This was somehow spun by online ignoramuses that Coristine was nebulously connected to Moscow when, in fact, his grandfather was clandestinely working for the U.S. rather than the Soviet Union.