It is difficult to say how sincere the people of Russia were in their manifestations of grief over the final departure from the scene of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. After more than a quarter of ...

Mao Zedong and Stalin are dictators who never fail to appear on lists of the world’s worst tyrants. While some leftist interpretations revere them as great revolutionaries who founded modern China and ...

Ivan the Terrible, depicted here circa 1580, became czar of Russia in 1547. He is among 12 finalists for the title of greatest Russian in history. Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian ...

The most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev’s three-hour secret address to the 20th Congress of the party in February. Ever since, Western intelligence agents have ...

We all think we know Stalin. He was the brutal and vengeful dictator of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until 1953, when, mercifully, he died before he could do any more damage. He was the ...

A controversial statue of Joseph Stalin has been erected at Moscow's busiest subway station. The move is viewed as a sinister attempt by the Kremlin to revive and whitewash the brutal Soviet ...

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian in history during a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Internet voting has already generated controversy by temporarily putting ...