In other words, cartoons aren’t an escape from the world and its problems, but a means of confronting political misconduct. Apart from relaying Efimov’s revealing anecdotes about Stalin ...

Notorious Russian dictator Joseph Stalin cruelly sketched sick cartoons of the men he ordered to be executed, newly released Soviet documents have revealed. In one of the doodles, drawn in 1930 ...

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There’s a cartoon about commas going around on the Internet. The first panel reads: “With the Oxford comma: We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin.” The illustration shows four people ...

Behind “The Death of Stalin” stretches a long tradition of British grotesquerie, from James Gillray’s scabrous cartoons of Napoleon back to Christopher Marlowe’s two-part “Tamburlaine ...

A PAPER in Belgrade recently printed a cartoon showing a lighthouse enveloped ... equally menaced by Western capitalism and Stalin’s corruption of Marxist Leninism. They lay great emphasis ...

Monument to Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin in Moscow Metro Stirs Debate MOSCOW (Reuters) -A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow's metro is stirring debate, with some Russians ...

Pavel Sudoplatov (1907 – 1996) was perhaps the most important figure in Soviet intelligence during Stalin’s era: he plotted Trotsky’s assassination, and worked hard to defeat Hitler.

DALLAS --A drawing of JFK, Stalin and two strippers has sparked outrage among some parents at a Texas high school after a teacher used it in class to illustrate the importance of the Oxford comma ...

Is there any point to another Stalin biography? Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill ...