Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, ...

The battlecruisers were designed to project power and deter Western navies, but their obsolescence in the face of carrier-based warfare and the immense cost of construction rendered them utterly ...

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. Rheumatoid ...

The Russian Communist Party (CPRF) has formally announced its intention to rehabilitate the image of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, passing a resolutio ...

General Secretary Joseph Stalin, right, seated beside his mentor in the Bolshevik Party, V.I. Lenin. Photo by Matthew Stevenson, of a photo in the Stalin Museum in Gori, Republic of Georgia.

People walk in front of the newly erected statue of Joseph Stalin at the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, in May 2025.

A soldier and an acting teacher collaborate to imitate a dictator in Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin at A Red Orchid Theatre.

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 ...

After a nearly six-decade absence, face of Joseph Stalin graces a Moscow subway Sculpture is part of the gradual rehabilitation of a brutal leader who still has the power to divide Russians, 72 years ...

A full-length sculptural relief of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appeared last week in Moscow’s Taganskaya metro station, as part of what have been described as efforts to restore original ...

His name is Joseph Stalin – immortalised in ceramic relief, flanked by beaming workers and reaching children. There’s no plaque for the millions purged, no mention of gulags or forced famines.

At the central Taganskaya station, a new statue has been unveiled. It is of one of Russia's most well-known and controversial leaders, Joseph Stalin, a man who killed millions. Some have welcomed ...