Mao Zedong and Stalin are dictators who never fail to appear on lists of the world’s worst tyrants. While some leftist interpretations revere them as great revolutionaries who founded modern China and ...

It is difficult to say how sincere the people of Russia were in their manifestations of grief over the final departure from the scene of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. After more than a quarter of ...

Is there any point to another Stalin biography? Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill in ...

The most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev’s three-hour secret address to the 20th Congress of the party in February. Ever since, Western intelligence agents have ...

Sergei Eisenstein’s last movie, Ivan the Terrible, was made at Stalin’s request, but its two parts had very different fates. The famed film director received the most prestigious state prize for the ...

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian in history during a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Internet voting has already generated controversy by temporarily putting ...

GORI, Georgia — Here are just a few of the fun facts that visitors learn during a guided tour of the Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the former Soviet leader was born. Joseph ...

A controversial statue of Joseph Stalin has been erected at Moscow's busiest subway station. The move is viewed as a sinister attempt by the Kremlin to revive and whitewash the brutal Soviet ...

Gathered around the body of Joseph Stalin (played by Adrian McLoughlin) are, from left, Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov, Dermot Crowley as Lazar Kaganovich and ...