Joseph Stalin

A day-by-day account of the historic summit in Yalta, seventy-five years later.

The warnings in Cold War history.

Giles Tremlett tells the story of the foreigners who joined the first line of defense against fascism in Europe.

Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but this view of science has its own political origins.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

Senator Joseph McCarthy built his reputation on fear-mongering, smear campaigns, and falsehoods about government employees and their associates.

Dean Acheson, President Truman’s prim, patrician undersecretary of state, was sitting in his office on February 21, 1947, when he received a visitor.

A Soviet blockade around Berlin cut the city off from the West. But in 1948 U.S. and British pilots began to fly food, fuel and medicine to the Allied sectors.

A new book tells the story of American communism as an integral part of 20th-century US history, with Communists “as social critics and social change agents.”

Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.

Plus: One historian’s about-face on the Communist record.

On the profound impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.

The history of American Communism shows that dogma and fervor are no substitute for popular support.

At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.

A review of three new studies about how race and class intersect.

A new book's insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by its own evidence.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

Rethinking the twentieth century.

On the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, we should remember that deploying the bomb wasn’t necessary to win the war.

The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.