Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.

"Pieces of a Woman" filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó is set to direct "The Revolution According to Kamo," an epic drama about the ...

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, his revolutionary communist policies and legacy in Eastern Europe. Under his authoritarian rule, the Soviet Union became a superpower ...

Truman's first impression of Joseph Stalin was favorable. "Truman had that very American idea," says historian David McCullough, "that if he could just meet the fellow, shake his hand, look him in ...

In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage. As a result ...

This volume is the first major study by a Russian Marxist historian of the most tragic and fateful year in the history of the Soviet Union. Possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet source ...

Eyes Open in the Dark” at London’s Raven Row gallery is the first exhibition to cover all of Hujar’s later work. Curated by ...