On February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered what would become known as the “Secret Speech.” This ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plaque in Russia commemorates the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, whose leaders were executed in August 1952. Adam Baker/Flickr ...
Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's ...
Why did Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet specifically in Yalta? What preceded this conference? How was the security of the three heads of state ensured? What was the main outcome of the Yalta ...
On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in ...
The consolidation of power in such a brutal form was not solely Stalin's fault, as Khrushchev claimed. Terror had been a ...
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, would have been 100 years old today, and she is one of history’s curios ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and ...