Before power and terror defined him, Joseph Stalin was a young revolutionary in love. Kato Svanidze’s brief life and early ...

On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

The most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev’s three-hour secret address to the 20th Congress of the party in February. Ever since, Western intelligence agents have ...

Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist regime, ...

Mao Zedong and Stalin are dictators who never fail to appear on lists of the world’s worst tyrants. While some leftist interpretations revere them as great revolutionaries who founded modern China and ...

A murderous dictator, a megalomaniac, a psychopath – I’ve heard Joseph Stalin described as many things but never as a pet possum. That’s what Archibald Clark Kerr, Britain’s Ambassador to the Soviet ...

DURING the war, as a soldier, it was my job for nearly two years to work with the Red Army, and particularly with the Soviet General Staff in Moscow, The frustrations of this period would lie more ...

John Wayne put his patriotic identity above all else. He chose many of his film projects based on a specific image that the whole family could enjoy. However, Wayne’s anti-communist messaging became a ...

In the second-largest city in Russia’s Tatarstan region, Naberezhnye Chelny, there is an unusual statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the grounds of an unlicensed private school. Seated casually ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stalin interrogated Sholokhov about ideologically problematic passages but agreed to the book’s publication on ...

Recent social media posts have juxtaposed two statements about counting votes in elections that are attributed to Joe Biden and the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. But it’s unlikely Stalin ever said ...