Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to ...

Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Joseph Stalin will soon have a life-size statue of his own in northwestern Russia, with the local governor saying the ...

Zhukov. Joseph Stalin keeps his chosen advisers close by him. Army General Zhukov, at 45 (or 48, some say) officially a Hero of the Soviet Union, wearer of the Order of Lenin and victor over the ...

The "second Stalin" was Ivan the Terrible, known for centralizing power and expanding Russian territories in the 16th century ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

“I enclose with them my best wishes for your personal welfare as well as for a happy future for the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.” The Nazi press meanwhile carefully eulogized Mr ...

Here Stalin was no doubt misled by the success of Trotsky, during the Russian civil war, in making effective use of men from the officers’ corps of the old czarist army, even when these men wore ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko is convinced that the West is definitely not interested in the restoration and development of Ukraine ...