On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in ...

Today, March 5, marks the 73rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin. Few figures of the 20th century shaped world history as profoundly as the Soviet dictator. His name stands both for the rise ...

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

March 5 marks significant historical events, including the Boston Massacre in 1770, which fueled the American Revolution.

Roy Medvedev, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet historian and dissident best-known for his pioneering account of the brutalities of Stalinism, Let History Judge (1969).

When Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviet Union was caught off guard. As German forces ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bathhouse No 6, rose to fame in the 1930s and was beloved by Stalin - Alamy In its heyday of the 1950s and ‘60s, Tskaltubo was a ...

Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the communist ...

A former White Army officer and a future Red Army hero teamed up to conquer the highest peak in the Soviet Union named after Joseph Stalin. Despite the success of the mission, the men’s lives were cut ...