Last week Comrade Stalin gave his countrymen the explanation he had owed them since that Sunday morning when Russians woke up to learn that Germany had invaded their country. It was his job to explain ...

When seven deputies of the convening Supreme Soviet last week introduced a motion inviting Foreign Commissar Viascheslav Molotov to deliver a speech at their last session, Moscow’s foreign ...

MOSCOW -- The Russian Communist Party asked the nation Monday for a daylong moratorium on criticizing Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as they celebrate his 130th birthday. Despite overseeing political ...

Comrade Stalin is back — at least underground. A monument to the Soviet dictator, once torn down, has been replicated and reinstalled in a Moscow metro station. The original statue, depicting Joseph ...

Former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been experiencing some ups and downs in Kazakhstan lately. The only full-sized monument to the iron-fisted leader remaining in the Central Asian state – where a ...

Providing another angle on themes explored in his prior docu trilogy about Eastern European/Soviet Jewry ("At the Crossroads," "The Last Klezmer," "Carpati"), Yale Strom's "L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin!" ...

). Disturbingly, the room also has a desk with a wax dummy of Stalin sitting behind it, as if he might jump up any minute and execute someone for touching his billiard table, in an adjoining room. Of ...