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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sergei Prokofiev died of a brain haemorrhage on the sofa of his Moscow flat. He was 61, and had struggled for years with ill ...

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?

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during ...

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 ...

‘One of Them Days’ is an Entertaining Tale of Friends Who Must Scramble to Find the Rent. The raucous... 'Den of Thieves 2: Pantera' Is Good but Lacks What Made the Original Great. While a ...