Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn ... as much about the current regime’s views of national power and state control, observers suggested at the time.

Chief among them are his aunt, who wants to advance the fortunes of her son, a simpleton, and Kurbsky, a warrior prince who wants both power and the hand of Anastasia. Ivan deftly plays to the ...

Ivan the Terrible is an American sitcom that aired on CBS for five episodes during 1976. The short-lived series parodied American attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.