When a dictator falls, chaos ensues. Uncover the satirical brilliance behind the power struggles and absurdities that follow ...

But just days after Stalin’s death, in 1953, the project was canceled amid the subsequent “thaw.” Since then, the railway’s gulag camps have lain abandoned, sinking further into the forest ...

There was no emphasis in the official announcements on the presence of a wife or children at Stalin’s bedside; it is not even known whether or not he remarried after the death of his second wife ...

They proved the better maneuverers. Death of a Rival. Zhdanov’s own son, Yuri, was chief of the scientific propaganda section. Malenkov, with Stalin’s backing, forced Yuri to publish a ...

The plan now has been put into effect. VOA says Stalin's death brings no relief from communism NEW YORK, March 6, 1953 (UP) -- The Voice of America warned Communist-dominated peoples behind the ...