In the years when Georgy Malenkov was Stalin’s personnel manager, he helped his boss build up a hierarchy of young technocrat-commissars. To get his men into key jobs, Malenkov had to shove out many a ...

These leaders of the USSR are remembered only by sovietologists. That said, their years in power saw some interesting events, too. On March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died and his post went to one of the ...

Gathered around the body of Joseph Stalin (played by Adrian McLoughlin) are, from left, Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov, Dermot Crowley as Lazar Kaganovich and ...

Armando Ianucci, best known for creating ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘Veep’, moves to 1953 Russia for his latest political satire, mining the aftermath of the Soviet dictator’s passing for maximum laughs.

Gathered around the body of Joseph Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) are, from left, Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov, Dermot Crowley as Lazar Kaganovich and Simon ...

In The Death of Stalin, actor Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter franchise) stars as Georgy Zhukov, a Soviet Union general who fell out of favor with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, but returned to prominence ...

Global Look Press Immediately following Stalin’s death, his inner circle was embroiled in a merciless power struggle. Proximity to the deceased autocrat was actually a compromising factor that could ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The current political climate is far from funny – but Armando Iannucci’s new satire looks set ...

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There’s a leadership vacuum at the top and the government is dominated by idiots. An inner circle full of hard-liners, misfits and preening malcontents desperately jockeys for position. And this is ...