Stalin has trained a generation of Russian intellectuals and party workers ... The answer must probably be sought outside the general tendency of rulers to claim continuity with what they actually ...

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin ... “justice” during the reign of the dictator Joseph Stalin. Putin’s prosecutor general is moving quickly, having already reinstated the charges ...

The Congress is content that its members do not rule Russia but merely ratify the acts of the Stalin dictature. Hand-picked by Communist agents in the provinces for this duty, the Congressmen and ...

On 11th September 1930, members of an elusive secret society were arrested by Joseph Stalin's secret police. Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was ...

International media began to compare this new measure to Joseph Stalin's secret police force, the NKVD (Russian acronym for ... and sent to the Gulag (General Directorate of Labour Camps).

President Vladimir Putin has tightened his grip on the country he has ruled since the turn of the century, with results from ...

Stalin instituted the Great Purge ... He was the Czechoslovak Communist Party’s general secretary after the World War II Russian occupation and was a leading creator of the communist ...

Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises ... When Lenin takes power he appoints Stalin to be General Secretary of the Communist Party. Stalin gains new skills working as a mediator ...

Mr Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who first rose to power in 1999, will soon at 71-years-old overtake Josef Stalin in becoming Russia's longest-serving leader for more than 200 years.