Joseph Stalin was born in Georgia ... In the midst of this, there was the Russian Revolution of 1905 – and Stalin met Lenin for the first time. From there, Stalin tussled with the law, lambasted ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

A long and bitter conflict between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin over who would succeed ... including two articles from 1936 on the prospects for revolution in France. After his internal exile ...

Another Red record was added last week to the 117 executions and 97 other sentences meted out by Soviet star-chamber courts after the assassination of Dictator Joseph Stalin’s “Dear Friend ...

MOSCOW, December 24. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has pointed to a stark contrast between Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s actions and the attitude of other European leaders towards ...

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

An article from Solidarity for Workers’ Power vol. 7, no. 11 on the nature of the bureaucratisation seen in the Russian Revolution.

Supporters and fans of Joseph ... by the Russian liberal TV presenter Vladimir Posner in a comment on a recent opinion poll, which showed one-third of Russians approved the role Stalin had played ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the ... a one-party State and an elaborate system of control. Under Joseph Stalin, the pace of change accelerated as he sought to convert ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future. However, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and US ...