It is difficult to say how sincere the people of Russia were in their manifestations of grief over the final departure from the scene of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. After more than a quarter of ...

But after Lenin’s death, Stalin energized and exploited the ... was the assertion of the self-sufficiency of the Russian revolution. . . . The Bolsheviks had by now grown accustomed to ...

In the former, Silova says universities “adapted” to the Nazis’ takeover of government, and once Hitler had control he “moved ...

Less than five years before the start of the Irish Civil War, the fratricidal terror that followed Russia’s October 1917 ...

Following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 ... will change Europe forever. After that, Jones travels to Moscow in hot pursuit of another scoop: an interview with Stalin about his five-year ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the ... Twenty-five-year-old poet Alexander Briansky remembers the October Revolution and the taking of the Winter Palace: "Everyone ...

STEPHEN KOTKIN is a professor of Russian history at Princeton University ... conducted as a part of the documentary program Yanks for Stalin concerning American aid in the industrial development ...

Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ... a mediator for officials throughout the party. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin begins ruthlessly promoting himself as his ...