State propaganda: Ms Schulmann said "let's not shut our eyes to the fact that Stalin is being touted as the victor in the war and a wise leader. And essentially the Soviet period is being touted ...
He wanted Stalin to sign up to the United Nations - a new global peacekeeping body for the post-war world. Prof Melvyn Leffler at the University of Virginia told the BBC that Roosevelt was well ...
His most high-profile gig came in February 1945, at the famous Yalta conference where Winston Churchill, Stalin and Franklin ...
The ‘Novoslobodskaya’ station, opened in 1952, was decorated with a mosaic panel with the inscription: “Peace to all the ...
Russia has a long history of spying on the U.S. from the relative safety of Mexico City, dating back to the 1980s. Decades ...
Travelers at the metro station first saw the words hailing Stalin at the start of 1950, when the station opened as one of the grand post-World War II constructions. It was contracted by Stalin ...
In 1952, amid the rising tensions of the Cold War, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin dispatched a note that promised to reshape Germany’s future and, by extension, the geopolitical landscape of Europe.
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 ...
The following interview was conducted as a part of the documentary program Yanks for Stalin concerning American ... So, here you are in the inter-war period where the most advanced countries ...
After Stalin’s death in 1953, it looked as though the Cold War might thaw a little. The new leader Nikita Khrushchev looked for a peaceful coexistence. In 1959 he said, There are two ways ...
In “The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler—How War Made Them and How They Made War,” Phillips Payson O’Brien explores the personalities of the European ...
Young Stalin,” Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography chronicling the life of Joseph Stalin as a bank-robbing gangster in ...