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

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 ...

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 ...

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Before power and terror defined him, Joseph Stalin was a young revolutionary in love. Kato Svanidze’s brief life and early ...

In his biography of Stalin, Leon Trotsky wrote that “the twentieth century . . . has returned us in many respects to the ways and methods of the Renaissance.” Stalin’s world, Trotsky proclaimed, had ...

Russia began formally observing the date in 1991, a few months before the Soviet collapse Some Russians were worried about a return to large-scale repression Stalin's legacy is extremely controversial ...

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 ...