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Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, ...
Diaries written by teenage boys in 1930s Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, and pressure to achieve ...
A Russian factory producing attack drones for strikes on Ukraine relies heavily on teenage students and young trainees to ...
Across a resurgent Russia, Stalin lives again, at least in the minds and hearts of Russian nationalists who see Putin as heir to the former dictator’s model of iron-fisted rule.
Close to Stalin, he is definitely one of Russia’s up-&-coming men. Stalin’s Voice. These men proclaim no policy on their own. Their job is to advise Stalin, who makes the final decision.
New alarms about a Stalin revival in Putin's Russia were set off by two manuals for history teachers published in 2007 and 2008. Compiled by experts with Kremlin ties, these manuals described ...
Under Stalin’s rule, approximately 1.7 million Soviet citizens were evicted from their homes and taken to forced labor camps. About 690,000 were executed.
Although Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died 70 years ago, his presence seems ubiquitous in the increasingly authoritarian Russia of Vladimir Putin. “We are definitely living inside Stalin’s ...
Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, a.k.a. Lenin (1870-1924), poses in Gorki, Soviet Union in 1922 with Josef Stalin. AFP/Getty Images ...
A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled in one of Moscow's busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator.