FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 | History Defined

Gandhi To Stalin: India's Disparate Opposition

India's opposition faces huge challenges as their loose coalition of more than two dozen parties take on the juggernaut of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party.

International Business Times · Apr 17, 2024

Ecuador Raid A Blow To Mexico's 'Sacred' Asylum Tradition

In the past century, Mexico has opened its doors to revolutionaries, Spanish exiles, and persecuted Latin American leaders -- a tradition that has been dealt an unprecedented blow by a police invasion of its embassy in Ecuador.

International Business Times · Apr 6, 2024

"A blueprint for a Trump autocracy"

Will a second Trump term bring a Putin-like dictatorship or the more subtle example of Hungary's Viktor Orbán?

Salon · Mar 28, 2024

Tucker Carlson Is No 'Traitor' for Doing Journalism

Everybody has the right to speak and then take the heat.

Reason · Feb 7, 2024

‘Thrown like animals’: Georgians identify victims in Stalin’s mass graves

Under Stalin, thousands were executed. Now, victims’ families and experts are trying to heal a national trauma.

Al Jazeera · Jan 28, 2024

Remembering Lenin—the First Great Communist Mass Murderer

On the 100th anniversary of his death, it's worth recalling that almost all the worst features of communist totalitarianism began under Lenin, not Stalin and other successors.

Reason · Jan 21, 2024

‘Angel or antichrist’: Russia grapples with Lenin’s legacy 100 years after death

Vladimir Putin blames leader of 1917 revolution for his woes in Ukraine but remains unable to diminish his towering legacy

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2024

100 Years After His Death, Russians Shrug At Lenin's Legacy

For almost a century after his death, Vladimir Lenin's carefully preserved body has lain in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square -- a glaring reminder of Russia's communist past.

International Business Times · Jan 21, 2024

Death threats for a Stalin vandal prompt soul-searching in Orthodox Georgia

An icon featuring Joseph Stalin on display inside Georgia’s largest cathedral causes a furore.

Al Jazeera · Jan 17, 2024

Smersh: why Putin has reinstated Stalin's notorious and much-feared anti-spy unit

A man under arrest by Russian internal security forces was seen confessing to a “crime”, in a video posted on January 2. He had been apprehended after allegedly posting a video on social media that purportedly showed air defences near the Russian city of Belgorod. This city, on the border…

The Conversation · Jan 12, 2024