After Stalin died in March 1953, a power struggle broke out in Moscow. Several Soviet leaders were worried that Beria was hoping to become as powerful as Stalin had been. And so in July of that ...

4 In September 1962, nine years after the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Aleksei Grigorevich ... ¹ Just as important as a new leader was the possibility of policy changes that would impact the ...

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Mr Shapps writes: “He of course is going nowhere after stealing Sunday ... until at least 2030. Stalin, who succeeded Lenin in 1924, was leader of the Soviet Union for 29 years.

A long and bitter conflict between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin over who would succeed Vladimir Lenin as the Soviet leader culminated ... for revolution in France. After his internal exile ...

After a night of heavy drinking Stalin dies of a stroke on 5 March 1953. Many in the Soviet Union mourn the loss of this great leader who transformed the Soviet Union from a feudal economy to an ...

After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet ... after his ouster by praising the leader of ...

Released from prison after Stalin’s death, the pianist Moisei Weinberg was initially too terrified to leave his cell. The chapters evoke a number of themes in the experience of Soviet repression ...