In the year behind us, numerous well-known regional figures from various fields – music, cinematography, sports, and others – passed away. Many of them will be remembered only for the good, and their ...

After Communist leaders suppressed religious holidays, Dec. 31 became a catchall secular holiday — with a New Year’s tree, a ...

Josip Broz Tito ruled Yugoslavia for nearly four decades — a socialist leader, Cold War power broker, and paradoxical figure ...

The Double P dynasty is thriving — and proudly rooted in corridos. On Christmas Day, Peso Pluma and his cousin and longtime collaborator Tito Double P released their long-awaited joint album, Dinastía ...

I have in the past received funding from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the ACLS, and the National Endowment for the ...

During the war Dictator Stalin helped to set up Dictator Tito in Yugoslavia. The Soviet Encyclopedia (1946 edition) says: “Led by Tito, the People’s Liberation Army together with the Red Army smashed ...

The battlecruisers were designed to project power and deter Western navies, but their obsolescence in the face of carrier-based warfare and the immense cost of construction rendered them utterly ...

Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating ...

A monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin erected in Moscow’s subway is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it’s a mistake to commemorate ...

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Josip Broz Tito, the lifetime President of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Tito passed away on May 4th 1980 in a hospital ...