The fact that Sidney Reilly was the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond tells us a lot about the life that Reilly lived.

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

Conventional histories usually mark the beginning of the Cold War to the year 1946 or 1947. But in truth the Cold War began during the Second World War. Great Britain welcomed Josef Stalin’s Soviet ...

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

The world’s dim picture of Joseph Stalin as a human being was sharpened up a little last week. The twelfth volume of Stalin’s collected works, issued in Moscow, contained an unpublished letter—a warm, ...