A collage of Vladimir Putin placing his hand on Joseph Stalin's shoulder. Richard Cohen's new book Making History details the links between the two Russian leaders. Illustration by Meilan Solly ...

People will usually agree that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung were among the greatest monsters of human history. All are considered such peerless villains that they have become brand ...

Joseph Stalin was a newspaper man, though not quite in the mold of Horace Greeley or Hildy Johnson or Ben Bradlee. When Czar Nicholas II was overthrown in March 1917, Stalin came back from his ...