This video examines the First Soviet Five-Year Plan, launched in 1928 under Joseph Stalin to transform the USSR from a rural society into an industrial power. We explore how rapid industrialization, ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...

The future of Greece after World War II was decided between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, who met secretly in Moscow.

Health spas have long made fantastical claims for their curative benefits, but Tskaltubo’s “Waters of Immortality” must ...

Here is question that few people have posed or even considered. What will be the fate of Russia after the war in Ukraine ends ...

What Putin is aiming for is the restoration of Russia as an imperial power. He said as much in his comments to Russian entrepreneurs at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2022.

Masked men detained Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday morning and drove her away in a van and two of her allies also disappeared later, the opposition movement ...