When Karl Marx, of all people, wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, he couldn’t have known of the terrifying end of days of the brutal Soviet dictator Joseph St… ...

“The Death of Stalin” opens with an absurd situation. An orchestra has played a concerto for radio broadcast, and Joseph Stalin calls up shortly after the finale and says he wants a recording ...

Nobody shuts up for a nanosecond in The Death of Stalin, a wickedly gabby black comedy about the noxious power vacuum that followed the Soviet dictator's sudden collapse from a stroke in 1953.We ...

THE DEATH OF STALIN, oddly, is a comedy, a mix of political satire and farce built around the days before and after the death of Josef Stalin. Anything about Stalin, the Soviet Union’s brutal longtime ...

Post-Stalin Soviet history gets the “Veep” treatment in “The Death of Stalin,” a stolid title for what turns out to be a masterfully crafted absurdist farce. Open in Our App.

It’s almost like a classic bar joke. A doctor, a minister, an aide, and a few others walk into Stalin’s chambers. Stalin looks pretty dead, stewing in his own filth on the floor. The men weep ...

But before I do, a recommendation: If you've never seen The Death of Stalin, the satirical 2017 thriller directed by Armando Iannucci starring Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, and Simon Russell ...

★ ★ ★ ★ the death of stalin Directed by Armando Iannucci. Written by Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows, and Fabien Nury, based on a comic book by Nury and Thierry Robin.

It's a film that, on paper, not only shouldn't have worked but might well have blighted a wide spectrum of careers, from Hollywood movie stars and British sketch royalty to Shakespearian stage icons.

Peter Bergen writes on the death of Alexey Navalny in Putin’s Russia, and how historical figures have shaped the president’s rule – in particular, Stalin.