When George Orwell published his dystopian masterpiece 1984, he was in part inspired by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union.There are lots of parallels between the world of 1984 and Stalin’s Russia ...

Stalin was especially displeased with the existence of one particular photograph, which found its way into journalists’ hands (foreign journalists, which was even worse). It was a photo of Yakov ...

On Monday, Russian Communists paid tribute to Joseph Stalin 130 years after his birth. All the while, debate still rages in the country over the reputation of a leader seen mostly in the West as ...