Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953 did not bring stability to the Soviet Union, it opened a vicious struggle for control at the top of the regime. As fear, paranoia, and conspiracy consumed the Kremlin, ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Devotees of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose brutal purges killed millions of innocent citizens and made his name a byword for totalitarian terror, flocked to the Kremlin to praise ...

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 ...

Stalin's reign saw millions executed and sent to Gulag prison camps or exile in remote regions, with many released only after his death in 1953. Although the flower-laying ceremony takes place by the ...

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 ...