Authoritarian leaders typically attempt a radical reshaping of civic life.  Every area of life—from culture and the arts to education and science—becomes subordinated to the preferences of the leader.

Behind public smiles lay a hidden map of conquest. In 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact while ...

In 1943, with the Axis collapsing, Nazi intelligence prepared an audacious strike. Code-named Operation Long Jump, it aimed to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin during the Tehran Conference ...

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