Last weekend’s program at the Boston Symphony used music to tell a powerful story of art, politics and fear.The concert opened with an excerpt from the Shostakovich opera "LadyMacbeth of the Mtsensk ...

Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for 28 years, overseeing a personality cult and a brutal regime. But a Moscow shawarma stand named after him lasted just one day. After complaints from angry local ...

Photos made by Soviet photographers, and one American observer, show the funeral of the U.S.S.R's most infamous dictator as viewed from behind the scenes and in front of the official cameras. 1 This ...

Comrade Stalin is back — at least underground. A monument to the Soviet dictator, once torn down, has been replicated and reinstalled in a Moscow metro station. The original statue, depicting Joseph ...