John Cheyne and William Stokes were nineteenth-century doctors who described a sort of labored, interrupted respiration sometimes seen among the dying. Their names have been part of everyday Russian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Under the leadership of current President Vladimir Putin, Russia is trying to impose a positive image of Soviet dictator Joseph ...

Russian Communists queue to lay flowers at Stalin's grave to mark the 130th anniversary of his birth in Red Square, Moscow.Ivan Sekretarev / AP It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders ...

Bobrovo (Russia) (AFP) – Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to ...

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin had radically different ideologies, but Hitler’s expansion forced them into an uneasy partnership. Behind the scenes, distrust and political ...

HarperCollins, 399 pp., $26.95 THERE’S NOTHING NEW about the upsurge in recent months of leftist theories about Jewish conspiracies, particularly in Europe. Anti-Semitism has long been established in ...

One Joseph Stalin was one too many. The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in for a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has returned to Moscow's intricate metro ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ukraine is bringing charges against Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his ...

Dictators are sensitive about the biographies written about them. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s ruler from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, was no exception. After commissioning an official ...