A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

Of course it would take years (even after Stalin’s death) for the USSR to acknowledge such persecutions. One suspects Putin ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's ...

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This video examines the First Soviet Five-Year Plan, launched in 1928 under Joseph Stalin to transform the USSR from a rural society into an industrial power. We explore how rapid industrialization, ...

Danger lurks around every corner in Sergei Loznitsa’s deliberately drawn-out story of a local Soviet prosecutor seeking truth in a system designed to suppress it.

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It’s a cliché to say that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

(THE CONVERSATION) Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and ...