Igor Stravinsky didn’t harbor such regrets. Born a generation earlier, he was a son of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Symphony of Psalms, commissioned by the BSO in 1930, is as much a personal ...

Stalin targeted officers based on their belonging to perceived “dangerous” groups, rather than any actual disloyalty. The ...

James Marson leads Ukraine coverage for The Wall Street Journal.

There is a classified America we were never meant to see. From Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, this twelve-part documentary series looks back ...

History is repeating itself once again, as it does every so often in the world. There are too many correlations to ignore.

Amazon's Etoile is about rival ballet theaters swapping top dancers. Read about a real U.S.-Soviet ballet exchange during the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly weighing ways to incentivize women to have more babies, including by ...

Donald Trump's White House has reportedly been meeting with pronatalist activists and birth advocates in order to come up ...

The Trump administration is weighing a set of pronatalist proposals—some inspired by authoritarian regimes—that aim to boost ...

Known as the Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter, Nazis issued a blue cross medal emblazoned with a swastika and something ...

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled pseudoscience, had Stalin’s backing, and promoted notions that wrecked the lives ...

At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body of Vladimir Lenin, the founding father of the Soviet Union. While other ...