The Russian Revolution, the grassroots popular revolt, happened without him. -Did false rumors about the tsarina and the mad monk Rasputin help bring down the Russian monarchy?

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin began consolidating power based on his key role in that aforementioned revolution: he was the man behind the scenes, working on the newspaper and ...

Joseph Stalin, pictured in 1936, was dedicated to the Bolshevik cause as a younger man, developing skills as a writer and organizer. As leader of the Soviet Union, his politics took a more brutal ...

Soon after Stalin died in March 1953, Russian military leaders began to incorporate the problems logically raised by the existence of nuclear weapons into more or less public discussions of military ...

The Death of Stalin was released on the eve of the centenary of the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian Revolution on November 7 1917.

The Russian Revolution touched millions of lives. From Moscow to Mali, and Vladivostok to Venezuela, BBC audiences share their stories.

On the eve of the Russian Revolution, Stalin was in his late 30s and had nothing to show for his life.

If Stalin was the source of the problem why do so many Russian workers blame Lenin and the other Bolshevik leaders too. The mythology of "Lenin, creator and sustainer of the Russian revolution" is now ...

Only then, in Stalin’s view, could the revolution be exported abroad. This spawned opposition from Leon Trotsky, always a cosmopolitan internationalist.