The statue’s hands are often painted red to symbolize Lenin’s legacy of bloodshed. Despite removal efforts, it remains a ...

This month, audiences in South Korea will once again encounter the haunting, layered world of the South African artist known ...

Vladimir Putin claimed the Soviet Union “determined the outcome of the Second World War ” as he inspected Russian troops at a Victory Day parade in Moscow. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

Things were going well while Lenin was its first premier, but when he died Trotsky found himself in difficulty. A power struggle developed between himself and Josef Stalin, which Stalin would win.

For almost 250 years, the Bolshoi Ballet has remained synonymous with the art of dance ... and announcements such as Vladimir Lenin’s death. It is one of the iconic landmarks in Moscow.

Saint Petersburg is a gripping history of the city with a focus on its siege by the Germans in World War II, particularly its ...

In the past couple of weeks, however, Trump’s patience with Putin’s equivocations has worn thin. Meeting Zelensky at the Pope ...

But the fact remains that these two steamers together constituted a Noah's Ark which also preserved a cult of free inquiry and civilised values for Russia that Lenin and Stalin had hoped to eradicate.

Sergei Loznitsa’s forensically objective, intellectually nuanced documentaries tend to stand in stark contrast to his fictional output; in films like My Joy, In the Fog and Donbass, the Ukrainian ...