W hen the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, millions in the country wept with grief. Many millions more wept, unsure of why. For almost three decades, ...

Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.

It is difficult to say how sincere the people of Russia were in their manifestations of grief over the final departure from the scene of Joseph ... in the Soviet Union under Stalin’s own guidance.

If a triumvirate, can it long endure or does the Soviet ... union of the two oppositions represented therefore little more than the joint wreckage of their former separate selves. . . . Stalin ...

(photo credit: CENTRAL PRESS/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES) By 1953 and the death of Russian leader Joseph Stalin ... and finally into Stalin’s inner circle. The Soviet Union was plunged into ...

Joining Kate for this third episode of our limited series, Real Wives of Dictators, is Sheila Fitzpatrick, historian of the Soviet Union and author of books including The Death of Stalin. This episode ...

Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, fell in love with Indian royal Kunwar Brajesh Singh, but Soviet politics denied their marriage. Their tragic romance ended with his death in 1967.