In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

New York Times journalist Nanna Heitmann spent six days in Russia's Kursk region near the front lines, where she was ...

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Joseph Stalin, or “Uncle Joe” to ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned to power.

After announcing its closure in June, Stalin may reopen later this summer in a temporary, outdoor-only format following ...

Last week saw the unveiling of a monument to Joseph Stalin in Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya Station, a replica of a piece that was installed in 1950 and removed during the de-Stalinization of the ...

The Arbitration Court of the Vologda region demanded that the monument to Joseph Stalin be removed from the museum's ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes ...

The site of a chilling cult massacre, which resulted in the deaths of over 900 people nearly half a century ago, has been ...

Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he ...

Stalin, in Portraits and Sculptures, Returns to Moscow To Help Putin Wage War on Ukraine ‘For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a ...