After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him into exile to Central Asia, Turkey and finally Mexico, where Trotsky would be ...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...

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

Statues of Lenin and Stalin, removed from Albania’s streets in the dying days of communism three decades ago, have suddenly reappeared in the garden of a government villa. Not everyone is impressed.

Historians and international relations scholars use the terms “Stalinism” and “Stalinist” to distinguish the Soviet communist regime under Joseph Stalin from communist leaders in other periods of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a rally to support his bid in the upcoming presidential election, at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia March 3, 2018. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky ...

Lenin’s corpse is not happy. His organs need to be removed, his skin is getting all splotchy, and Stalin needs him to show his face to keep Russians inspired. But Lenin, who was an atheist and a ...

MOSCOW — Lenin and the czar were ready. There were no cops in sight, and the sunny weather had brought out a swarm of tourists on this early winter afternoon. Adjusting the worker’s cloth cap on his ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin's paternal grandfather worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the president said in a film posted on the internet on Sunday. In the two-hour ...