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.

A murderous dictator, a megalomaniac, a psychopath – I’ve heard Joseph Stalin described as many things but never as a pet ...

Svetlana Stalin merits a little space in this magazine. First, she was an important and fascinating figure of the 20th century. But second, she declared National Review her favorite publication ...

The Communists of Russia party has asked the security service to investigate whether Western intelligence services were involved in the death of Joseph Stalin. Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from ...

John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

CONCEIVED in the tense atmosphere of the 1960s, Skrunda-1 was built to house the operators of an early warning radar system, designed to detect incoming missiles from the West. ©News Group ...

A long and bitter conflict between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin over who would succeed Vladimir Lenin as the Soviet leader culminated on this day in 1928 when Stalin exiled Trotsky to Siberia ...

The annexation of Western Ukraine to the USSR was a political mistake by Joseph Stalin, which led to major negative ...

The Conversation Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrative Richard Cohen In the late 1930s ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on Aug. 23, 1945, ordered Japanese captives to be interned in Siberia, where conditions were extremely harsh. Japan surrendered in World War II on Aug. 15 of that year.