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 ...

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian ever as part of a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Online voting... Was Stalin The Greatest Russian In History? Russians have ...

VOLGOGRAD, Russia — Josef Stalin and the city of Stalingrad are making a comeback, if only for a short time. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin cleverly manipulated the U.S. and Great Britain during WWII, sowing the seeds for Communist expansion throughout Europe and Asia, according to this richly detailed account.

Stepan Karagodin, center, was a prosperous peasant farmer and village leader who resisted the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. His great-grandson Denis Karagodin has spent years piecing ...