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 ...

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 ...

Joseph Stalin believed in predestination. Just not the Calvinist kind. Both Stalinism and Calvinism can sound, at least ...

GORI, Georgia — Here are just a few of the fun facts that visitors learn during a guided tour of the Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the former Soviet leader was born. Joseph ...

History portrays Stalin as an inhumane and vicious leader - but he was a man as well as a monster. Do we betray his victims by noting his human side, or will the full picture help guard us against ...

BOBROVO — Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned on Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the ...

March 5 marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Over the last 15 years or so, attitudes among Russians about the role Stalin played in the life of their country have ...

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. By Timothy Snyder. Basic Books; 524 pages; $29.95. Bodley Head; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk IN THE middle of the 20th century Europe's two ...