When Krishna Menon met Stalin

Reena Stanton-Sharma listens to archive recordings of Menon recalling his impressions of the Soviet Union's leader in a 1967 ...
The Barents Observer

A fourth monument to Stalin is to be erected in the Vologda region

The project to create the monument to the Soviet dictator is being overseen by the governor of the Vologda region, Georgy ...
Time

Selling Joe Stalin

Did Joseph Stalin invent modern marketing? That’s the thesis of a new show at Frankfurt’s Schirn Kunsthalle, which argues that the techniques the dictator used to promote communism in the 1930s ...
The Washington Post

The Specter Of Joe Stalin

When a man's legacy includes a body count of 25 million, it's better to mark his anniversaries soberly than to celebrate them. Yesterday's 50th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death occasioned the ...
The Conversation

Do claims that Crimean Tatars are worse off under Putin than Stalin stand up? An expert examines the evidence

The deportation of at least 240,000 Crimean Tatars to central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1944 is forever ingrained in the memory of the people of that region. Stalin used claims, later ...
The American Prospect

‘Useful Idiots’—Stalin’s Then and Putin’s Now

As events would have it, the news of Alexei Navalny’s death came just two days after I’d finished reading the second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography of Joseph Stalin, which covers the period from ...