Behind his bland dark eyes, the "man of steel" had a hard mechanical brain that never hesitated at mass murder in its driving ambition to dominate the world. Millions of Russians- many of them ...

The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of war, but he remains a deeply divisive figure in Russia. By Ivan Nechepurenko ...

“It may well be that the historical period examined in our book has been subjected to the most biased assessments. In countless journal articles, Stalin’s ‘great breakthrough’ was declared to be ...