Vera Golubeva spent more than six years in one of Joseph Stalin’s gulag camps. Her crime? “To this day, I still don’t know,” she says. In a new documentary from Coda Story, Golubeva remembers the ...

Historians say there is no evidence that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was Jewish or had Jewish ancestry, contrary to the suggestion made in an online interview by American conservative commentator ...

This article was originally posted on Twitter. Seventy years ago, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died at the age of 73. To the extent that the worst defeats of the working class in the 20th century ...

Editor’s Note: Jade McGlynn is a non-resident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of two books, “Russia’s War” and ”Memory Makers: The Politics of the ...

Researchers in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa have unearthed at least 29 mass graves believed to contain victims of Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge, which found the Soviet dictator’s regime ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled at one of Moscow's busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator. The ...

VOLGOGRAD, Russia — Josef Stalin and the city of Stalingrad are making a comeback, if only for a short time. The Russian city of Volgograd has approved the use of its wartime name at events on ...

• The tale circulated online for years, but this new version uses the story to criticize anti-COVID-19 measures. • The anecdote was written decades after Stalin’s death by an anti-Stalinist author who ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...