Editor’s Note: Jade McGlynn is a non-resident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of two books, “Russia’s War” and ”Memory Makers: The Politics of the ...

Novaya Gazeta documents how, since the 1990s and increasingly during Putin's quarter-century of rule, 213 new monuments have been erected to Stalin, along with hundreds of actions of various kinds to ...

Josef Stalin, one of the most powerful and brutal leaders in history, left a legacy of death, destruction, and domination. In this Forgotten History episode, we explore the rise and fall of Stalin, ...

The Lenin Order, the highest Soviet Order, was conferred to-day by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Government on three Jews for services to industrialisation and collectivisation in the ...

Attitudes to Stalin deeply divided in ex-USSR His dictatorial rule oversaw deaths of millions Victory in WWII recalled during Ukraine conflict MOSCOW/GORI, Georgia, March 3 (Reuters) - On the eve of ...

Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist regime, ...

‘For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a professor notes as images of the late tyrant emerge across Russia. Joseph Stalin, center ...

From 1958-61, Mao Zedong ruled China with a big Communist stick that rivalled the size of Joseph Stalin's in the USSR. Zedong wanted to implement industrialisation and collectivisation onto China's ...