On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

First broadcast in 2006 this documentary examines the influence and importance of Soviet architecture during the Stalin years and its role in codifying the regimes ideology.

In a lecture focused on the political changes in Europe following World War I, Andrew Sobanet, chair of the French department, examined the rise of Stalinist thought in France during the early 20th ...

The world’s dim picture of Joseph Stalin as a human being was sharpened up a little last week. The twelfth volume of Stalin’s collected works, issued in Moscow, contained an unpublished letter—a warm, ...

Editor’s Note: Jade McGlynn is a non-resident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of two books, “Russia’s War” and ”Memory Makers: The Politics of the ...

IN THE SPRING OF 2022, THE EARLY DAYS and weeks of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine were marked by a drastic hardening of authoritarianism in Russia—or, perhaps more accurately, a drastic plunge from ...

ON Stalin’s night to play host at dinner, “The atmosphere,” says the record, “was most cordial and 45 toasts in all were drunk.” Under sparkling chandeliers at Yusupovsky Palace sat the men casually ...