Abhishek Banerjee compares Bengal Assembly Poll to Battle of Stalingrad

Speaking at a news meet, Abhishek announced that Mamata Banerjee would hold a dharna at Esplanade on Friday against the ...

33 Years Later, Steven Spielberg's Definitive World War II Masterpiece Finds a New Streaming Home

Steven Spielberg's epic World War II movie Schindler's List is coming to a new streaming platform this March. Find out more.

Quote of the Day by Dwight D. Eisenhower: ‘...it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron’

Joseph Stalin had just died, and the Cold War was on the horizon. The four-star general who led the effort in Europe in World ...
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They Always Underestimate America

They did not count on MacArthur and his brilliant Inchon landing, with US forces eventually making it all the way up to the Yalu River and the Chinese border. Saddam also belittled American military ...

How I teach the rise of dictators and America’s uneasy road to World War II

Teaching World War II effectively means resisting the temptation to begin with explosions, battles, and December 7, 1941. For ...

One Thing Japan, America and the Soviets Did Together? Help Mao Win.

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.
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My run-in with Stalin’s trolls

I was offered the chance to be one of the first to work on Stalin’s own papers, and I wrote Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar ...

Russia moves to replace Gulag museum: How did the Stalin-era labour camps operate?

The word 'gulag' has become shorthand for state terror. Behind the acronym lies one of history's most methodical and devastating systems of human punishment, one that shaped modern Russia and left sca ...