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 ...

No time! Besides, what the devil ... Gorky had proposed the founding of a special magazine to be called On War. Stalin rejected the idea, and in doing so gave a predated lecture to those 1950 ...

The magazine bases its choices on the person ... "The year 1942 was a year of blood and strength," Time said of Stalin in early 1943. "The man whose name means steel in Russian, whose few words ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...