What did Vladimir Lenin really think of Joseph Stalin? Explore the critical letters, personal doubts, and final political ...

Seventy years after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin “gifted” Warsaw its towering Palace of Culture and Science, the skyscraper ...

In the summer of 1943, the Germans captured dozens of Soviet prisoners of war during the Battle of Smolensk. However, one of ...

Stalin set harvest quotas that farmers couldn’t meet; later, during the Terror, he set execution quotas that officials exceeded. Illustration by Henning Wagenbreth ...

At times, Stalin’s inner circle comes vividly to life: Anastas Mikoyan, the dapper Armenian who, in a popular joke, was so tricky he didn’t need an umbrella but just dodged the raindrops and ...