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 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 ...

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. And we’re continuing our series of interviews with Peter Kuznick. He’s the coauthor of the book and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW -- In August 1942, 16-year-old Aldona Voldynskaya was taken from a Soviet orphanage by Nazi troops and put to work unloading trucks in Germany. This summer, 60 years later, the German ...

Watch a clip from the movie ‘The Death of Stalin,’ starring Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale and Jeffrey Tambor. Photo: IFC Films Kremlinologists used to scrutinize every prosaic photo or public ...

‘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 ...

Russia's Culture Ministry on Tuesday banned the satirical film The Death of Stalin from Russian theaters after politicians and prominent film figures criticized it for mocking Russian history. The ...