When Stalin’s only true friend — one of the USSR’s most decorated heroes — died suddenly after a private meeting, officials ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stalin interrogated Sholokhov about ideologically problematic passages but agreed to the book’s publication on ...

Photos made by Soviet photographers, and one American observer, show the funeral of the U.S.S.R's most infamous dictator as viewed from behind the scenes and in front of the official cameras. 1 This ...

Attitudes to Stalin deeply divided in ex-USSR His dictatorial rule oversaw deaths of millions Victory in WWII recalled during Ukraine conflict MOSCOW/GORI, Georgia, March 3 (Reuters) - On the eve of ...

The firing of the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency echoes the USSR of 90 years ago. Throughout the 1930s, Joseph Stalin conducted purges of his military (among other agencies). There were ...

Comrade Stalin is back — at least underground. A monument to the Soviet dictator, once torn down, has been replicated and reinstalled in a Moscow metro station. The original statue, depicting Joseph ...

With its depth of historical re-creation, its cast of famous figures given tantalizingly brief appearances, its scientific, political and sociological threads running away in multiple directions, a ...

Historians say there is no evidence that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was Jewish or had Jewish ancestry, contrary to the suggestion made in an online interview by American conservative commentator ...

The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage. By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv and ...

The head of a rights group has told Newsweek that the blessing a Russian Orthodox priest gave a statue of Joseph Stalin signaled how the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator had been rehabilitated by ...