After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him into ...

By tracing Joseph Stalin’s path to power, this article highlights the warning signs of authoritarianism and the conditions ...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

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

Statues of Lenin and Stalin, removed from Albania’s streets in the dying days of communism three decades ago, have suddenly reappeared in the garden of a government villa. Not everyone is impressed.

One hundred years ago, on December 23, 1922, Lenin began writing one of the most politically significant documents in the history of the Soviet Union. It consisted of a series of notes that were to be ...

Lenin’s corpse is not happy. His organs need to be removed, his skin is getting all splotchy, and Stalin needs him to show his face to keep Russians inspired. But Lenin, who was an atheist and a ...

MOSCOW — Lenin and the czar were ready. There were no cops in sight, and the sunny weather had brought out a swarm of tourists on this early winter afternoon. Adjusting the worker’s cloth cap on his ...