For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a professor ...

On March 5th, a sombre male voice on the radio, heard on loudspeakers mounted in public spaces throughout the U.S.S.R., announced that the great leader Joseph Stalin ... It is a portrait of ...

The Levada poll (in Russian) is the highest rating for Stalin in the past 20 years - a period that has seen his portrait reappear across Russia, often with official approval. New Stalin statues ...

A portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been hung at a Moscow subway station in celebration of the 82nd anniversary of the opening of the Russian capital’s underground transport network.

Princeton University historian Stephen Kotkin lets us know his portrait will be different. His Stalin is the man valued by Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin for his "combination of unwavering ...

In “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar,” published in 2003 to international acclaim, British historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore presented a macabre portrait of the private world of ...

RFE/RL takes a look at some images from his early life. (11 PHOTOS) 1 A portrait of Josef Stalin's mother, Ketevan Gheladze Dzhugashvili (1858-1937), a housewife, seamstress, and laundress.

observes that “Spartacus” became Khachaturian’s “self-portrait, his requiem.” Because the ballet did not premiere until 1954, a year after Stalin’s death, Khachaturian always wondered ...