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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, Russia’s lower house of parliament passed a resolution insisting that Josef Stalin’s man-made 1932-33 famine — called the Holodomor in Ukrainian — wasn’t genocide. Not even the Russians ...

‘Romantic and Progressive: Stalinist Impressionism in Painting of the Baltic States in the 1940s–1950s,’ installation view (photo courtesy of Kumu Art Museum of Estonia) TALLINN, Estonia — The history ...

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

(Reuters) - A new monument to Soviet-era leader Josef Stalin is set to be erected soon in a city in northwest Russia following what the regional governor there said were "appeals from the public".

TBILISI -- A depiction of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin inside Tbilisi's main cathedral has reignited debate in Georgia over apparent attempts to recast one of history's most ruthless oppressors of ...