On December 1, 1934, Sergei Kirov, one of Joseph Stalin's closest friends and a powerful Soviet official, was shot from ...
Is there any point to another Stalin biography? Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill in ...
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, ...
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings A poster of Joseph Stalin hangs in a shop window in Mukden, China, in 1946.