As memories of the Stalin era fade, a project run by young Russian historians is putting his journal and hundreds more like it online. While Alexander Yakovlev's death was over half a century before ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and ...

Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator. His name stands both for the rise ...

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 ...

Television viewers have voted Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who sent millions to their deaths in the 1930s, Russia’s third-greatest historical figure. Rights activists have blasted Stalin’s inclusion ...

Did Joseph Stalin invent modern marketing? That’s the thesis of a new show at Frankfurt’s Schirn Kunsthalle, which argues that the techniques the dictator used to promote communism in the 1930s ...

The film "The Master And Margarita" has been a big hit in Russia. It's based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name about a popular 1930s Moscow writer suddenly canceled by Stalin's Soviet ...

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, 97, the last surviving henchman of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and a man who carried out decrees that led to the deaths of millions by starvation and the firing squad, ...