What did Vladimir Lenin really think of Joseph Stalin? Explore the critical letters, personal doubts, and final political ...

Seventy years after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin “gifted” Warsaw its towering Palace of Culture and Science, the skyscraper ...

Stalin set harvest quotas that farmers couldn’t meet; later, during the Terror, he set execution quotas that officials exceeded. Illustration by Henning Wagenbreth ...

New alarms about a Stalin revival in Putin's Russia were set off by two manuals for history teachers published in 2007 and 2008. Compiled by experts with Kremlin ties, these manuals described ...

At times, Stalin’s inner circle comes vividly to life: Anastas Mikoyan, the dapper Armenian who, in a popular joke, was so tricky he didn’t need an umbrella but just dodged the raindrops and ...