The occupation of Poland may have turned out to be the last hurrah of Polish warplanes during WWII, but not the Polish combat pilots, more specifically the ones that escaped into exile in Great ...

The latest play from theatrical provocateur Howard Brenton is about Winston Churchill's visit to Joseph Stalin in Moscow in 1942, and stars Roger Allam (pictured) and Peter Forbes.

Playwrights who work for decades often acquire a moniker. In the case of Howard Brenton, who began his career as a ...

The Soviet Union claimed parts of Finnish territory mainly to create a buffer against a German attack as the Finnish border ...

In the freezing winter of 1939, the Soviet Union launched an invasion of Finland, expecting an easy victory. Instead, they ...

Paradoxically, the UN required democratic conditions from Spain that it never asked of the Polish communist dictatorship (author of the petition that gave rise to this resolution) nor of the other ...

The first NCAA men’s basketball tournament was held in 1939 and saw Oregon emerge from a field of eight as the inaugural champion. In the decades since the tournament’s inception, 36 different ...

The Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste Révolutionnaires ( NPA-R) in France has its first congress on 31 January to 2 February. In the run-up to the congress, we have written to the Socialisme ou Barbarie ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

The Tamil Nadu government has announced its decision to boycott the Republic Day tea party to be hosted by Governor R.N. Ravi at the Raj Bhavan on January 26.

Stalin had been invited to attend the conference, thus making up the Russian third of the Grand Alliance (a term coined by Churchill in reference to a successful alliance led by his ancestor ...