Joseph Stalin addresses voters in Moscow on the even of the election in which Russians voted for the first time under the new constitution, Dec. 22, 1937. Bettmann / Getty Images.

Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist ...

Sullivan cites Stalin’s grandson, the Russian theater director Alexander Burdonsky, who describes his aunt as a princess who tried to escape her fate and to live normally, but was always doomed.

Kotkin’s biography of Joseph Stalin is already monumental—and this is just the first entry in a planned trilogy. Stalin emerges here as a more vivid and complete figure than he does in countless other ...

Robert Service talked about his book [Stalin: A Biography], published by Belknap Press. The book described the life and times of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, detailing his childhood ...

If you Google "Stalin, biography," 166,000 websites come up. ... Joseph Stalin was the real creator of the Soviet system as it became consolidated in the 1930s, ...

A monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin erected in Moscow’s subway is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it’s a mistake to ...