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 ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin is behaving like “a modern-day Stalin”, Grant Shapps has said after the Russian president won a fifth term in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Marx would have reacted, had he seen to what use his ideas were put by the likes of Lenin, Stalin and Mao, will remain one of history's intriguing unanswered questions. The philosopher ...