He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the communist ...

Bathhouse No 6, rose to fame in the 1930s and was beloved by Stalin - Alamy In its heyday of the 1950s and ‘60s, Tskaltubo was a flagship spa town in the Soviet Union and famous, not just for its ...