"A monumental style that could assert the authority of the state". Gabrielle Stein considers the politics behind the USSR's buildings.

From 1942-1948, he was director of the Soviet Union’s Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which was used by Stalin as a propaganda tool to obtain help from the West. In 1948 and 1949, the following ...

The full text of two messages, one by Stalin condemning racial hatred and reminding the world that anti-Semitism is punished by law in the Soviet Union, and the other by Hitler declaring that ...

Stalin’s collectivization of the countryside ... were essentially feeding back Soviet propaganda. Foreign correspondents were kept in Moscow, not permitted into the Ukraine, and were heavily ...

When the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, millions in the country wept with grief. Many millions more wept, unsure of why. For almost three decades, the Soviet people ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

Instead of pouring resources into rebuilding Ukraine to make it an even stronger post-war partner, the anti-Truman dictates ...