Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current ...

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...

A team of researchers has produced and analysed brand new data on the Holodomor, the famine in the Soviet Union in 1932-33 that has become an infamous example of the Soviet state’s oppression of the ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

This expansive empire crumbled under the strains of World War I and the seismic events of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by Vladimir Lenin, paving the way for the emergence of the Soviet Union.

The Big Three - Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin ... the Soviet Union to declare war on Japan. Though the tide had dramatically turned against the Japanese Empire, their ...