DUEL FOR EUROPE — John Scoff —Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). When Stalin set the European tinder-box ablaze by signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler in August 1939, the civilized world gasped: How ...

Edward Gibbon sits proudly upon my bookshelf. A set of volumes that I own, neatly stacked, comprises his “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” What do you make of me because it is ...

With no advance publicity at all, Simon & Schuster last week published The Rainbow ($2.50). It is the $20,000 “Stalin Prize novel for 1943.” Most U.S. readers do not associate Stalin with literary ...

I don't know why, but I've gained a recent interested in Stalin, especially the military purges, forced mass starvations and executions of hundreds of thousands of Russians.<BR><BR>I don't really care ...

The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War; by Alan Philps; Pegasus Books; 464 pp, $29.95 During World War II, the Metropol provided a base for a ...

International confrontations and the strains within alliances remain both topical and fascinating, and few instances have been as central to our understanding of history as the tensions between the ...

What caused Joseph Stalin to become one of history’s most notorious mass murders? Unlike Adolph Hitler, whose victims were anonymous Jews and other “undesirables” whom he did not know, Stalin’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Historians and international relations scholars use the terms “Stalinism” and “Stalinist” to distinguish the Soviet communist regime under Joseph Stalin from communist leaders in other periods of ...