Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy in modern Russia.

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

Director Armando Iannucci’s new movie, ‘The Death of Stalin,’ explores the chaos surrounding the sudden death of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953. Iannucci found that things that really happened were so ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could ...