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

John Cheyne and William Stokes were nineteenth-century doctors who described a sort of labored, interrupted respiration sometimes seen among the dying. Their names have been part of everyday Russian ...

A California professor was widely hounded on Twitter for praising the legacy of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, calling him "one of the great leaders" of the 20th century. Asatar Bair, a ...

Russian Communists queue to lay flowers at Stalin's grave to mark the 130th anniversary of his birth in Red Square, Moscow.Ivan Sekretarev / AP It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders ...

One Joseph Stalin was one too many. The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in for a ...

TBILISI, Georgia — A shiny shard of nose and a crumbling sliver of whiskers from a long-destroyed stone statue are among Grigori Oniani's most prized possessions. That's because the pieces once were ...

The people of Georgia have no reason to love Joseph Stalin. And yet they do, despite the fact the Soviet dictator invaded the country in 1921 and, in the years that followed, oversaw the deaths of at ...

Ukraine is bringing charges against Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his secret police (NKVD) chief Lavrenti Beria for the repression of Crimea's Muslim Tatar community, the country's general ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Russian Revolution may have ended the reign of the tsars, but it did not see off totalitarian rule, with dictators ...