A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on 20th-century history — and still has an influence today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Mao Zedong and Stalin, both dictators and bibliophiles, had the face of Janus. Both were avid readers who delved not only into ideological texts but also literature, history, and philosophy. In his ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's ...

Mr. Golinkin is the author of the memoir “A Backpack, a Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka.” I grew up in a land of lies and bones, with the dead being erased or subsumed by the Kremlin, which refused to ...