Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jugashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. — Wikipedia
Western media’s misleading claim that Russia is glorifying Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin serves an obvious purpose: to prompt urgent calls from its readers for foreign intervention.
In July 1945, US President Harry Truman informed Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that America had created “a new weapon of unusual destructive force.” To Truman’s surprise…
The amended constitution clears the way for Mr. Putin, already the country’s longest-serving ruler since Joseph Stalin, to approach the 43-year reign of Peter The Great
When statues are removed, or military bases renamed, does this “destroy history”? Did the removal of the statues of Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein “erase history”? What pu…
Those smitten by John Wayne, Robert E. Lee, or even Joseph Stalin should commission statues on their own property. The rest of us have more important issues to debate.
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks with Bard University history professor Sean McMeekin about his new book, which describes how the fears and ambitions of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shaped the cour…
★★★★☆In 1934 the Scottish journalist Harry Whyte wrote to Joseph Stalin after an addition to the Soviet Penal Code that prohibited homosexuality, punishable by three years’ hard labour.Whyte’s name
Artists can get too close to their subjects, which was a particular concern for the film director Armando Iannucci when his subject was Joseph Stalin. Iannucci tells The Lock In podcast that when he
Joseph Stalin was one of the founders of the 1st Cavalry Army and always held it in high regard. And many of the soldiers who served in that unit enjoyed his personal trust and friendship.
Comparing Republicans and President Donald Trump to Joseph Stalin was all the rage on Monday as Resistance Twitter saw the polster Rasmussen use a quote attributed to the Soviet leader – and…
The Kim family has governed North Korea since Soviet leader Joseph Stalin installed clan patriarch Kim Il Sung after World War II, holding power for three generations despite widespread…
TEHRAN – An Iranian play named “Holodomor” premiered at Tehran’s Neauphle-le-Chateau Theater on Friday, recapitulating the Holodomor, a famine planned by Joseph Stalin in Soviet Ukraine from…
Russia inaugurated on Sunday a huge new cathedral dedicated to its armed forces that had caused controversy over initial plans to decorate its interior with mosaics depicting Russian…