Although the sketches depict people Stalin did not know, some of the images obviously reminded him of people he had killed or purged as he conducts angry one-way dialogue with them by scrawling on ...

"but rather an illustrative sketch that Aitmatov either invented himself or heard elsewhere and subsequently attributed to Stalin." Oleg Khlevniuk, a historian based in Moscow and the author of a ...

Boris Ilizarov, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said Stalin would pen the offensive sketches of his victims while attending Politburo meetings. Ilizarov, who found the cartoons in a government ...

There is a kind of justice when a great despot like Joseph Stalin, who made millions suffer during his lifetime, suffers at the hands of his biographers. From the early accounts by his rival and ...

Certainly, a writer or historian must be meticulous in scholarship - a book that concentrated on Hitler's sketches or Stalin's poetry, while ignoring their brutality, would be iniquitous.