The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to ...
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...
A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. That idea — roughly paraphrasing a quote attributed to Joseph ...
Democrats and some former Trump officials criticized President-elect Donald Trump's announcement that he wants Kash Patel to ...
Endless debate over whether the ending of the composer’s Fifth Symphony represents a capitulation to Soviet demands or a ...
A murderous dictator, a megalomaniac, a psychopath – I’ve heard Joseph Stalin described as many things but never as a pet ...
Guided by Joseph Stalin, the USSR was pointing the way to more humane, equitable, and peaceful global order. During the 1930s, according to Lionel Trilling, in his day the very embodiment of ...
A rare survivor of the harshest Stalin-era labour camps has died aged 89 in Russia's far east. Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison ...
The Voice of America warned Communist-dominated peoples behind the iron curtain today that the death of Joseph Stalin promises no relief from the "extermination and suppression" he fostered in the ...
Rumor has it that an ancient, powerful curse contributed to the start of World War II. On June 22, 1941, Joseph Stalin ordered Soviet archaeologists to open the tomb of Amir Timur in Samarkand, ...
Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.