WE LIVE in a time of planning -- even of planned history. History planned means history annulled. Moscow now dictates that the revolution of October 1917 had quite different authors and heroes from ...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

See what sparked the fight. In this Jan. 2009 file photo, lookalikes of two Vladimir Lenins, left, and a Josef Stalin, right, speak near Red square in Moscow. Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty Images MOSCOW -- ...

Belarus's authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka says he lags "far behind" Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as a leader and that opposition protesters should never be allowed onto the streets. In one ...

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, ...

Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator. His name stands both for the rise ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

Ukrainian citizens most positively regard historical figures Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Mykhailo Hrushevsky, and most negatively Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Lenin, according to a survey ...