At first, Lenin saw Stalin as useful: tough, ruthless, and effective at organizing people and getting things done. But as the Soviet Union formed, Lenin grew alarmed by Stalin’s push for centralized ...
Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...
MOSCOW — Lenin and the czar were ready. There were no cops in sight, and the sunny weather had brought out a swarm of tourists on this early winter afternoon. Adjusting the worker’s cloth cap on his ...
The unpredictable mindset of the man who plunged Eastern Europe into war is raising the risks of a wider conflict involving NATO members, against which Russian President Vladimir Putin has floated the ...
One hundred years ago, on December 23, 1922, Lenin began writing one of the most politically significant documents in the history of the Soviet Union. It consisted of a series of notes that were to be ...
A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...