On March 9, 1890, Vyacheslav Molotov, one of the key figures in Soviet history, was born. A hardline Bolshevik loyal to Stalin, Molotov led a long and turbulent life.

Joseph Stalin - "Joe" to his friends and "Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili" when he's in trouble from his mother - is a man who, unfortunately, needs no introduction. World War II's third most ...

Just like his boss Joseph Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria (1899 – 1953) was born and bred in Georgia. An ethnic Mingrelian (a small nation closely-related to Georgians), during the Russian Civil War ...

MOSCOW — Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for three decades, turning it from a backward agrarian country into a nuclear superpower — and a land of mass murder, political repression and gulags.

The Russian Revolution resulted in the establishment of the first Communist state in history and was the work of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin - that's the general story told to history students in ...

20 Mind-Blowing Facts About Joseph Stalin. 1 fact for every million people he killed. by Adam Clery. Sep 15, 2018 Updated: September 15th, 2018. PA/PA Archive.