But just days after Stalin’s death, in 1953, the project was canceled amid the subsequent “thaw.” Since then, the railway’s gulag camps have lain abandoned, sinking further into the forest ...

After Stalin’s death, the Soviet government admitted that many of his victims had been wrongly accused. Others were officially rehabilitated beginning in the final years of the Soviet Union ...

A Russian cinema has stopped screening UK comedy The Death of Stalin, which was earlier banned by the government. Moscow's Pioneer Cinema said it had been forced to act for "reasons beyond our ...

tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe; not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?

Stalin gains new skills working as a mediator for officials throughout the party. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin begins ruthlessly promoting himself as his political heir. Many in the party ...

A rare survivor of the harshest Stalin-era labour camps has died aged 89 in Russia's far east. Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison ...

As one of his colleagues remembered, an order from Beria was a matter of life and death. So it's an indication of the importance Stalin gave to the Soviet atomic bomb program that he appointed ...

Rogovin insists that it is impossible to understand the purges apart from Stalin’s determination to stamp ... Before his untimely death in September 1998, Dr. Rogovin presented lectures all ...

Governor R.N. Ravi and various political leaders condoled the death of former Prime Minister ... the lives of millions,” Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said on X. BJP Tamil Nadu president K.

Chief Minister M K Stalin and other Tamil Nadu politicians, including AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami and BJP state president K Annamalai, expressed sorrow over the death of former ...