In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

The idea of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) as a colonial power remains a contentious issue. During the Cold ...

Joseph grows up in poverty ... saboteurs and imprisoned or executed as enemies of the state. When Stalin takes power, Soviet agriculture is still dominated by small landowners and blighted ...

Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell ...

John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Soviet Union could never allocate enough of the country’s resources to build a real fleet of aircraft carriers. There was always ...

British schoolchildren preferred Joseph Stalin out of all the commanders of the Second World War. This was stated by a member ...

On the year’s shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy’s pious mother christened him ...

71 years ago today, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died. Born December 18, 1878, he had ruled over Russia in various capacities from 1921 until his death, and changed the world in the process.

This three-minute phone call is the subject of A Dictator Calls, the last novel by the leading Albanian writer, intellectual ...

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.