Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plan
"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves", said Joseph Stalin, one of the most iconic figures in Russian history. Stalin went on to become the leader of the Soviet Union, as the successor of Lenin, another major Russian figure. Stalin is touted as one of the most ruthless leaders who, through his introduction of the Five Year Plans, brought a monumental change in the Soviet economy.

Joseph Stalin Quotes
Joseph Stalin holds a prominent place in world history as a powerful Russian dictator. He is credited for the role he played in the second world war and the defeat of Nazism.

Stalinism: The Use of Propaganda by Joseph Stalin
Iosef Besarionis dze Jughashvili or Josef Stalin was born on December 18, 1878. He rose to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in 1922 and took over as an authoritarian leader immediately after Lenin's death in 1924. Stalinism or the Stalin propaganda was unique to a world rife with the race for territorial expansion and humiliated national sentiment...

Timeline of Joseph Stalin
From the small town of Gori, Georgia, to the Soviet capital, Moscow, Stalin indeed changed the political equation of the world. A sneak peak in the life of Joseph Stalin, the great communist revolutionary of the 20th century.

Life of Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was among the most powerful figures of the early half of the twentieth century, but has left behind a divided legacy.

Facts on Josef Stalin
Josef Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party in Russia. He was born on 18 December, 1878. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin ousted Trotsky from power and rose to become dictator of the Soviet Union...

Joseph Stalin Biography
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The Real Secret of Khrushchev's Speech
Fifty years ago a Soviet leader dared to criticise Stalin. But was this bravery or a cynical ploy?

Russia May Finish Stalin's 'railway of Bones'
Exhibition in memory of project built on prison labour opens in Moscow.

How Stalin's Favourite Hotel Hid a Tonne of Explosives
For more than six decades it was the social hub of the Soviet elite. But this week it has emerged that the guests of the hotel Moskva were literally sitting on a timebomb.

Row Over Sale of Stalin's Dacha
The billionaire Russian metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska ignited a political row yesterday after it emerged he is planning to buy a £5.5m dacha that belonged to the former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

New Russians Gripped By Stalin's Old Spell
As nostalgia for Joseph Stalin swells in Russia and the 60th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Nazis on May 9 approaches, Oryol has rekindled its affection for a man seen by many as the 20th century's worst mass murderer.

Chateau Stalin Up for Grabs
In the shameful arena - for a communist - of Sotheby's auction rooms in London, 195 bottles from Stalin's dessert wine cellar were auctioned yesterday, several going for more than £2,000 a bottle.

Book tells how John Wayne survived Soviet assassination
Joseph Stalin ordered the KGB to assassinate John Wayne because he considered his anti-communist rhetoric a threat to the Soviet Union, according to a new biography of the film star based on interviews with Wayne's close associates and the movie legend Orson Welles.

Russian editor sacked for attack on Stalin
In a crackdown reminiscent of the Soviet-era, the editor of a newspaper in an obscure Russian town has been fired because of an article levelling blame for many of Russia's social ills at the feet of the Communists and the dictator, Josif Stalin.

Stalin's reputation as a ruthless master of deception remains intact
Fifty years after Stalin's death, one of the first western historians to document the violence perpetrated by the brutal leader describes how his demise saved citizens of the Soviet Union from greater suffering.

Stalin is Alive
Fifty years after his death, Uncle Joe still casts a dark shadow over the left, the current crisis, and the world. These days it takes two schoolgirls pretending to be lesbians, kissing and fondling on stage, to get people to pay attention to Russia.

Stalin's black farce
How could intellectuals faced with imprisonment, torture and murder under Stalin laugh about their plight? Because they couldn't do anything else, says Martin Amis in the final exclusive extract from his extraordinary new book.

'Haughty' Amis faces the wrath of Russia
Historians hit back as author labels Stalin's Terror a 'black farce'. Nick Paton Walsh reports. A controversial new book by Martin Amis on the political executions and terror of Stalin's Soviet Union has been attacked by Russian historians and human rights activists who have branded it 'haughty' and 'unacceptable'.

Stalin Was Their Darling
They were the ultimate party hacks, painting propaganda for the Soviet regime. So why are the socialist realists fashionable now? By Tania Branigan.

Andrew Alexander: The Soviet threat was a myth
Stalin had no intention of attacking the west. We were to blame for the cold war.