Mar. 11—A renowned Ukrainian filmmaker will visit the University of Oklahoma for a public event to screen his documentary about Joseph Stalin. Sergei Loznitsa, an internationally acclaimed film ...

The 20th century is likely unique in laying claim to three sociopathic dictators whose complete disregard for humanity in either the individual or the collective has justifiably earned them the label ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

Using hours of found footage, ‘State Funeral’ revisits the funeral of Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin, offering “a damning critique of a… disastrous cult of personality.” Entertainment Critic Armando ...

History may be, as Napoleon wrote, the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon, but national histories in the 20th Century left behind something they couldn’t in earlier eras: a ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

In 1953, the USSR mourned Joseph Stalin, the ruthless leader who to this day remains the most controversial figure in Russia’s modern history. Tens of thousands of people wanted to see the leader’s ...

A nation mourns its leader. In the far north, they gallop by reindeer towards the nearest village; in the far south, they gather around the sound system on an oil rig, heads bowed. Across thousands of ...