Josef Stalin, one of the most powerful and brutal leaders in history, left a legacy of death, destruction, and domination. In this Forgotten History episode, we explore the rise and fall of Stalin ...

Plamper opens with a chapter on “Paths to the Stalin Cult,” which deals with the idea of “personality cult” and the rise of Stalin. The rest of the book is divided into two parts, “Cult Products,” ...

He is partly paralysed from a massive stroke, and has wet himself. The man is Joseph Stalin, responsible for the deaths of millions of people – perhaps as many as 20 million. In The Death Of ...

A fresh controversy has erupted in Tamil Nadu after Governor RN Ravi likened the MK Stalin-led state government’s actions to ...

That's not because of any overt comparison between Stalin (a highly effective totalitarian despot who executed and exiled millions) and Trump (an incompetent wannabe despot who is merely deporting ...

The biography begins with the 1905 revolution in Moscow, when Vavilov, the grandson of a Russian serf and the son of a man who rose from extremely humble beginnings to become a wealthy textile ...

Journey with Bill Whittle through the rise of Stalin, the fall of Lenin, and the Soviet Union’s brief affair with capitalist economics. What does the cold steel in Soviet Gulags do? It cracks.

"An apartment on the 22nd floor in the Stalin-era high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment has caught fire. People in the windows are begging for help," the spokesperson said, adding that ...