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 ...

Political observers here believe that Stalin, minister of nationalities, will succeed Lenin, although all admit that none can really fill the place of the governing mind of the revolution.

Military orchestras played funeral dirges and other compositions by Stalin's favorite composers, Glinka and Tschaikovsky. It was in the same hall that the body of Lenin, Stalin's predecessor and ...

By 1945, Stalin had already established himself as a brutal tyrant capable of inflicting terrible suffering on the Soviet people. Within five years of Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin had managed to ...

The following interview was conducted as a part of the documentary program Yanks for Stalin concerning American ... role in the 1920s-30s? Why did Lenin like him so well? Why was he the single ...

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...

According to the Visit Finland, the museum was located in the building where Lenin first met Stalin during a secret meeting.

Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, center, lays flowers at the grave of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin near the Kremlin Wall to mark the 72nd anniversary of his death, with ...

A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...