This video explores how Joseph Stalin built and maintained one of the most powerful cults of personality in modern history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Under the leadership of current President Vladimir Putin, Russia is trying to impose a positive image of Soviet dictator Joseph ...

It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders getting a birthday party like the one thrown Monday at Moscow’s Ismailovsky Hotel for the former despot, Josef Stalin. The grand hall was packed ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The head of a rights group has told Newsweek that the blessing a Russian Orthodox priest gave a statue of Joseph Stalin ...

The world’s dim picture of Joseph Stalin as a human being was sharpened up a little last week. The twelfth volume of Stalin’s collected works, issued in Moscow, contained an unpublished letter—a warm, ...

One Joseph Stalin was one too many. The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in for a ...

Most people hate to speak ill of the dead. They look for something nice to say about even the not-so-dear departed. People’s natural imperfections usually seem to shrink when they leave this earth.