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 for a quarter of a century.
Zhukov. Joseph Stalin keeps his chosen advisers close by him. Army General Zhukov, at 45 (or 48, some say) officially a Hero of the Soviet Union, wearer of the Order of Lenin and victor over the ...
White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.
“I enclose with them my best wishes for your personal welfare as well as for a happy future for the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.” The Nazi press meanwhile carefully eulogized Mr ...