After reciting an unflattering poem about Stalin to a small group of friends, Osip Mandelstam was betrayed to the police and endured five years in exile before dying in transit to the gulag. His wife, ...

Around 750,000 people are summarily killed. In 1919 Stalin marries his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva and they have two children – Svetlana and Vassily. He abuses Nadezhda and she eventually ...