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 ...

According to Golfo Alexopoulos and new evidence, the essential purpose of the Gulags was violent human exploitation. The system of exploitation during Stalin’s years was unchanging, punitive, and ...

MOSCOW -- The typewritten letters on a yellowing page spell out the end of an era in striking shorthand. Next to the time -- 9:50 p.m., March 5, 1953 -- is just a brief entry: "Comrade I.V. Stalin ...

Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator. His name stands both for the rise ...

Moscow, March 5th 1953. Stalin is dead. One day later, he is lying in state in an open coffin. Over one and a half million people move through the streets of Moscow. A last farewell for the man they ...

The film, which depicts the power struggle in the politburo following the death of the Soviet dictator, was to have been released last month but was banned at the last minute following an outcry by ...

In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage. As a result, when someone ...