By tracing Joseph Stalin’s path to power, this article highlights the warning signs of authoritarianism and the conditions ...

Moscow was gay and confident. Twice within the week gun salvos announced new successes. The Dnieper had been crossed. Kiev’s recapture was near. The winter’s chill breath was already upon the city, ...

“It wasn’t really a sanitarium! Do you know, I’ve heard. . . .” Thus all Russia has gossiped for a month or more. Soviet censorship concealed absolutely the real condition of “The Man of Steel,” ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Josef Stalin was one of the supreme monsters of history. He may have murdered more people by execution, persecution and starvation than even ...

Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist regime, ...

‘For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a professor notes as images of the late tyrant emerge across Russia. Joseph Stalin, center ...

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