Mao Zedong and Stalin are dictators who never fail to appear on lists of the world’s worst tyrants. While some leftist interpretations revere them as great revolutionaries who founded modern China and ...

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian ever as part of a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Online voting... Was Stalin The Greatest Russian In History? Russians have ...

This article was originally posted on Twitter. Seventy years ago, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died at the age of 73. To the extent that the worst defeats of the working class in the 20th century ...

The unpredictable mindset of the man who plunged Eastern Europe into war is raising the risks of a wider conflict involving NATO members, against which Russian President Vladimir Putin has floated the ...

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Oct 11 (Reuters) - A new monument to Soviet-era leader Josef Stalin is set to be erected soon in a city in northwest Russia following what the regional governor there said were "appeals from the ...