Playwright Dianne Nora imagines a training session for these security doubles, played here by John Judd and Esteban Andres ...

The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of ...

Star Wars hero Cassian Andor was inspired by Joseph Stalin, from the character's rugged ... petulant intensity even extends to tailoring his uniform to make him look smarter than his contemporaries.

Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.

By Simon Sebag Montefiore When guests used to visit Vladimir Putin in his office in the ­Kremlin’s Senate Palace, he’d point at the bookshelves and ask them to choose a book from Joseph ­Stalin’s ...