Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator. His name stands both for the rise ...
On February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered what would become known as the “Secret Speech.” This ...
Roy Medvedev, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet historian and dissident best-known for his pioneering account of the ...
On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in ...
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 ...
Why did Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet specifically in Yalta? What preceded this conference? How was the security of the three heads of state ensured? What was the main outcome of the Yalta ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bathhouse No 6, rose to fame in the 1930s and was beloved by Stalin - Alamy In its heyday of the 1950s and ‘60s, Tskaltubo was a ...
(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 ...
The consolidation of power in such a brutal form was not solely Stalin's fault, as Khrushchev claimed. Terror had been a ...
Dmitri Shostakovich: the Soviet voice of the oppressed. Discover the lives and works of all the great composers, at classical ...