But the millions incarcerated cheer at the demise of one of the most murderous dictators in history. Stalin’s successor Khrushchev denounces the dead dictator and begins a wave of "destalinization." ...
He focuses on Stalin, emphasizing the ways in which the Soviet leader's foreign policy echoed approaches of his imperial predecessors. Stalin was a 'man of the borderlands', shaped by his experiences ...
Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current president wants to undo that.
After Stalin’s death in 1953 ... either peaceful coexistence or the most destructive war in history. There is no third way. However, there were problems in Eastern Europe throughout the 1950s ...
Stalin complained about Mr ... Kovalchuk now fears that history is repeating itself. Dozens of Ukrainian cultural figures have been killed in today’s war, stifling the country’s cultural ...