History illuminates the present. I've been reading Stephen Kotkin's widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph ...

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In March of 1953, Moscow, and the rest of the Soviet Union, fell under a spell. On March 5th, a sombre male voice on the radio, heard on loudspeakers mounted in public spaces throughout the U.S.S.R., ...

An award-winning author has compared President Donald Trump to some of history’s most notorious dictators. Malcolm Knox, ...

Dictators are sensitive about the biographies written about them. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s ruler from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, was no exception. After commissioning an official ...

Joseph Stalin did not begin life as a conqueror or tyrant. Born in 1878 as Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili in what is now Georgia, he came from poverty, abuse, and instability. His father, an ...

He was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 20 million people during his brutal rule, but on March 5, 1953, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin died and so did his dictatorship. Look back at the ...

On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in Moscow ending a nearly 30-year reign that transformed the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Russian Revolution may have ended the reign of the tsars, but it ...

The people of Georgia have no reason to love Joseph Stalin. And yet they do, despite the fact the Soviet dictator invaded the country in 1921 and, in the years that followed, oversaw the deaths of at ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ukraine is bringing charges against Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his ...