It should come as no surprise to learn that being born under a shadow as large and daunting as Joseph Stalin's inevitably ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, ...

At Moscow’s central Taganskaya metro station, commuters stream past a newly-restored monument to a former ruler whose reputation is undergoing a dramatic revision in Russia: Joseph Stalin.

USSR: Stalin Era. Showing 1 - 10 of 10 Results. Home / Archives. Moscow looks for its first ambassador to U.S. By EUGENE LYONS. MOSCOW, Nov.18, 1933 (UP)-Soviet Russia, in formal diplomatic ...

Across a resurgent Russia, Stalin lives again, at least in the minds and hearts of Russian nationalists who see Putin as heir to the former dictator’s model of iron-fisted rule.

MOSCOW, Friday, March 6 — Premier Josef Stalin, 73, died last night in the Kremlin. Death came at 9:50 P.M. (1:50 P.M. New York time). He died in a coma. He had been unconscious and paralyzed ...

Hey, kids, meet Josef Stalin. New Russian high school textbooks – introduced in August 2023 on the instruction of President Vladimir Putin – attempt to whitewash Stalinist crimes and ...

Under Stalin’s rule, approximately 1.7 million Soviet citizens were evicted from their homes and taken to forced labor camps. About 690,000 were executed.

The first course historian Stephen Kotkin taught as a member of Princeton's faculty, "Seminar in the History of Soviet Russia," met for the first time 26 years ago, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 1989..

A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled in one of Moscow's busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator.

In May, a portrait of Stalin went up on the entrance to a Moscow subway station. Public approval of Stalin reached a 16-year high this year, according to a poll by the Levada Center, a research group.