In 1940, Time magazine gave a much harsher judgment saying that, by attacking its neighbours, Stalin had betrayed socialists worldwide and matched the fuhrer “as the world’s most hated man ...

I have had no time yet to discuss your propositions with our anti-religious comrades. ... Gorky had proposed the founding of a special magazine to be called On War. Stalin rejected the idea, ...

For the first time, there was serious criticism of Stalin in the Party ranks, and talk of removing him. By then, it was too late. Kotkin’s Stalin is a workaholic.

Hitler was named Time’s “Man of the Year” in 1938 while Stalin won the award a year later. The Soviet dictator would be declared “Man of the Year” again in 1942.

Stalin had it in his power to stop the drift toward Cold War then and there. Contrary to what some historians have suggested, he had choices. All he had to do was be prepared to say how the money ...

Russians pored last week over No. 8 of the magazine Bolshevik, absorbed like eager sponges what Josef Stalin said to German biographer Emil Ludwig (TIME, Jan. 4). Shrewd. Dr. Ludwig has been ...

Joseph Stalin was chosen as Time's Person of the Year in 1939 and 1942. The Soviet leader is often pointed to as one of the most ruthless authoritarians in history.

In the United States, the January 1943 edition of Time magazine put Stalin on the cover as "man of the year" for 1942. "The year 1942 was a year of blood and strength," reported Time. "The man whose ...

Grigory Ordzhonikidze, another crony, had lost both his parents by the time he was 10. The young Stalin, by contrast, had a mother who, despite her background, was ambitious and energetic ...

My father, the diplomat George F. Kennan, disliked the telephone. So when he called me in March 1967, I knew it was something important. At the time, I was 36 years old and living in California ...

On April 21, 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, bounded down the stairs of a Swissair plane at Kennedy Airport. She was forty-one years old and wore an elegant white double ...