Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?

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

Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal and racist

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...
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Discovering my babushka's life in Stalin's Russia

In this video, the creator shares a personal moment with their Russian Babushka, Nadezhda, as they make Vareniki (Russian ...
KHQ

Russians marking Stalin's repression warn against return to past

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's ...
SFGate

Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’

(THE CONVERSATION) Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and ...

Meet Spiridon Putin: Russian President Vladimir Putin's Commie Grandpa Was A Chef To Rasputin, Lenin, & Stalin - Did You Know?

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...
Times Union

Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Wendy Z. Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University ...