He aped Stalin’s manners ... Marxist scholars for their “researches into who is [a man’s] grandmother . . .” Too young in 1917 to become a hero of the October Revolution, he is of the ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it ... His father is an alcoholic who deals out regular beatings. As young Joseph grows up, Georgia’s romantic folklore and anti-Russian ...

leads a group of revolutionaries in a massive bank heist to rob the Imperial Bank in 1907 Tbilisi. In the process, Soso becomes the man known as Joseph Stalin.

and pictures of the young man stretched out on the camp fence. U.S. and British diplomats decided, however, to withhold the information from Stalin in order to spare him any personal pain.

Today there is a “Stalin Myth.” And any man who hopes to rule the Russian ... In the mind of the young Communist, the selection of such quotations added up to a picture of Trotsky malevolently ...

Ever since he was young, Dadaev had been told by his friends he bore a striking resemblance to Stalin. And now that ... and the younger man had to spend months perfecting the leader’s ...

Stephen May used to write contemporary novels about men who ‘live outside big cities, lack self-confidence and rarely feature ...