In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand.

Hmm. When teenager Ioseb Jughashvili (he later changed his name to Stalin) became an atheist after reading Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” I suspect he didn’t set out to ...

Gori, a small town in central Georgia, is best known as the birthplace of Ioseb Jughashvili, the man who would rule the Soviet Union for three decades under his adopted name, Josef Stalin. For ...

Back in the mid-1930s, the former Soviet Union went on an aggressive push for rapid industrialisation. The man at the helm of the communist party in the USSR, a Georgian named Ioseb Jughashvili ...

PA/PA Archive Joseph Stalin - "Joe" to his friends and "Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili" when he's in trouble from his mother - is a man who, unfortunately, needs no introduction.

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili or Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the strongman of the USSR died. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was crowned queen of England. James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick ...