From the “most hated man” to heroic defender of the Motherland – Time magazine’s attitudes to Joseph Stalin changed drastically throughout the years. But why? Today, Soviet leader Joseph ...

He used to keep a fake Time magazine cover with the fake ones that ... It’s been people like Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler and Khrushchev and Khomeini. So he’s in that kind of company as ...

While the reputation of Stalin suffered when the horror of his purges were revealed, he is still much admired by some ...

Molotov is unassuming. He has had power for a quarter of a century. For half of this time, he has been Stalin’s Man Friday, which is as high as a man can climb in Russia. Molotov has not let the ...

None for Stalin. And this is Stalin’s biographer! Still, when it came time to build a mass party that could administer a powerful state, Lenin found himself depending more and more on Stalin.

Never did Stalin want only secure borders to prevent another German invasion of Russia; his goal was to bide his time by doing whatever was necessary until the final showdown between the ...

Grigory Ordzhonikidze, another crony, had lost both his parents by the time he was 10. The young Stalin, by contrast, had a mother who, despite her background, was ambitious and energetic ...

Hoping for Lenin’s recovery and believing that their joint action would be more effective than his own solitary effort, Trotsky bided his time. Meanwhile Stalin acted. It was about this time ...

On April 21, 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, bounded down the stairs ... had become lonely and unpleasant. In 1985, Time published a story in which she was described ...