A new statue of Joseph Stalin is set to be installed in Russia. The former Soviet leader, who ruled the USSR from 1924 until ...

Stalin reigned over the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953, presiding over a regime characterized by political repression, ethnic cleansing, famine, and disease. Tens of millions of ...

Oct 11 (Reuters) - A new monument to Soviet-era leader Josef Stalin is set to be erected soon in a city in northwest Russia following what the regional governor there said were "appeals from the ...

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Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

It was clearly realized that this was a New Fact in the world's power politics, that the bomb constituted a threat to Russia." Within weeks, Stalin issued a decree that made the development of the ...

Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator responsible for millions of deaths in Central and Eastern Europe, will be commemorated with a new life-size statue to be unveiled in Russia. “The decision was ...

Stalin personally showed interest in Mongolia ... “Realistically, the [Soviet] Russian connection was important for Mongolia in terms of both reasserting its independence and guaranteeing ...

From a Russian penal colony, Boris Kagarlitsky responses to questions about socialist democracy, one-party systems and the need to adapt party forms to the realities of today's working class.