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3 Times Stalin's Flying Phobia, Cited by Historians, Changed Summit Plans

The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's deep-seated fear of flying created ripple effects across global diplomacy during World ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Stalin’s Library’ Review: The Soviet Union’s Red Leader Was a Red Reader

Edward Gibbon sits proudly upon my bookshelf. A set of volumes that I own, neatly stacked, comprises his “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” What do you make of me because it is ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Kornél Mundruczó to Direct Joseph Stalin Origin Story ‘The Revolution According to Kamo’

The biopic will trace the early years of the Soviet dictator through the lens of his childhood best friend. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief “It’s less about a man being born evil, but about ...
The American Spectator

Remembering Stalin’s Atrocities Against the Ukrainian People

The images from Ukraine in recent days have been shocking, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to descend even lower into the realm of pure evil than he’s already gone if he hopes to do to ...
The Patriot Ledger

Putin's tactics in Ukraine rival Stalin's engineered famine in the 1930s

Vladimir Putin’s brazen and barbarous invasion of Ukraine is reminiscent of the artificially engineered famine Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin used in 1932-1933 in an attempt to extinguish Ukraine.
Time

Rehabilitating Joseph Stalin

It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders getting a birthday party like the one thrown Monday at Moscow’s Ismailovsky Hotel for the former despot, Josef Stalin. The grand hall was packed ...