"The bizarre dialectics of history unexpectedly put forward by the Soviet government, with its ideology of the international, to the role of a national factor in modern Russian life," wrote Nikolai Vasilyevich Ustryalov (1890-1937), a Russian politician, writer and publicist, the founder of national Bolshevism. During the Civil War in Russia, he was on the side of the Whites and fought against the Bolsheviks, then, in exile, he rethought his ideas...

Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens--and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane,...