‘The Death of Trotsky’ Review: Stalin’s Long Reach

After losing a power struggle with Josef Stalin, the Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky fled to Mexico. The plans to eliminate ...

Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident historian who exposed Stalin’s brutality but later endorsed Putin

Roy Medvedev, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet historian and dissident best-known for his pioneering account of the ...
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Beyond the movie: What really happened when Stalin died?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adrian McLoughlin plays Stalin in ‘The Death of Stalin’ (Rex/eOne) Armando Ianucci, best known for creating ‘The Thick of It’ and ...
New Republic

The Stalin Pattern For Power

Everywhere the same question: Who will rule Russia? If a triumvirate, can it long endure or does the Soviet structure demand a single head? Will there be orderly elimination or violence? If violence, ...
The American Conservative

The Second World War Was Not Stalin’s War

Stalin’s War: A New History of WWII, by Sean McMeekin (Basic Books: 2021), 864 pages. The peoples of the Russian Federation—despite the imperishable cynicism that so many express on matters ...
The New Yorker

How Stalin Became Stalinist

Is there any point to another Stalin biography? Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill in ...
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Why Stalin’s popularity doesn’t have to be as terrifying as it seems

This week, yet another poll confirmed Joseph Stalin’s unwavering hold on the popular imagination of Russians. Surveys have documented steadily rising admiration for the Soviet leader in the last ...