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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Under the leadership of current President Vladimir Putin, Russia is trying to impose a positive image of Soviet dictator Joseph ...

In the years leading up to the German invasion, policies under Joseph Stalin reshaped the Soviet military through purges that ...

One Joseph Stalin was one too many. The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in for a ...

On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in Moscow ending a nearly 30-year reign that transformed the ...

It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders getting a birthday party like the one thrown Monday at Moscow’s Ismailovsky Hotel for the former despot, Josef Stalin. The grand hall was packed ...

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 ...

Everyone knows Joseph Stalin—but far fewer know the man who carried out his terror. Lavrentiy Beria ran the Soviet secret ...

A murderous dictator, a megalomaniac, a psychopath – I’ve heard Joseph Stalin described as many things but never as a pet possum. That’s what Archibald Clark Kerr, Britain’s Ambassador to the Soviet ...

Most people hate to speak ill of the dead. They look for something nice to say about even the not-so-dear departed. People’s natural imperfections usually seem to shrink when they leave this earth.

Unelected White House advisor Elon Musk retweeted a post on Thursday that blamed the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong on — we are not making this up — public sector ...