By the late 1920s, Stalin became the dictator of the Soviet Union. Here, Stalin is pictured at left, carrying Vladimir Lenin’s casket into the crypt near the Kremlin Wall in Red Square, Moscow.

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

One Joseph Stalin was one too many. The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in ...

Last week saw the unveiling of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya Station, a replica of a piece that was installed in 1950 and removed during the de-Stalinization of the ...

After Vladimir Lenin died in January 1924, Moscow's Red Square became the site of a series of block-shaped structures made to house the embalmed corpse of the Soviet founder.

Russian soldiers from the Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defence, dubbed ‘Putin’s miniskirt army’ march at Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow.

The Russian state is promoting the Soviet dictator through new monuments, reversing the de-Stalinization process of the 1960s. Why would a country celebrate a mass murderer?

Stalin, who died on March 5, 1953, was partially rehabilitated in the decades that followed. These days, he is in some respects a source of inspiration for Vladimir Putin.

On 24 June 1945 they marched triumphantly through Red Square in Moscow. They are the faces of our great Victory! The first Victory Parade in Moscow featured more than 1,800 units of military hardware.

Things must be really bad for Russian President Vladimir Putin, because he is resorting to one of Stalin’s preferred ways of holding on to power: appealing to anti-Semitism.

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