The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of ...

A monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin erected in Moscow’s subway is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as ...

While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western defenders ... in his book Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime. It's also worth noting that Lenin was the one who elevated Stalin to ...

Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.