Is there any point to another Stalin biography? Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill in ...

Everywhere the same question: Who will rule Russia? If a triumvirate, can it long endure or does the Soviet structure demand a single head? Will there be orderly elimination or violence? If violence, ...

It is difficult to say how sincere the people of Russia were in their manifestations of grief over the final departure from the scene of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. After more than a quarter of ...

Joseph Stalin did not begin life as a conqueror or tyrant. Born in 1878 as Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili in what is now Georgia, he came from poverty, abuse, and instability. His father, an ...

John Cheyne and William Stokes were nineteenth-century doctors who described a sort of labored, interrupted respiration sometimes seen among the dying. Their names have been part of everyday Russian ...

The people of Georgia have no reason to love Joseph Stalin. And yet they do, despite the fact the Soviet dictator invaded the country in 1921 and, in the years that followed, oversaw the deaths of at ...