Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

The railway also would have connected northern nickel mines to Soviet factories to the west. But just days after Stalin’s death, in 1953, the project was canceled amid the subsequent “thaw.” ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power ... “What he said about the nationalities is interesting. He condemns Stalin for deportations of nationalities and for violating Leninist norms.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future. However, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and US ...

After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Soviet authorities suspended this project and ended the forced labour of prisoners. Only 64 kilometres of tracks were left to complete, but the investment was ...

Following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, Ukraine failed to escape Soviet control. Stalin’s collectivization of the countryside saw the confiscation of private property and farms, as well as ...

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 ...