A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

Mao Zedong and Stalin, both dictators and bibliophiles, had the face of Janus. Both were avid readers who delved not only into ideological texts but also literature, history, and philosophy. In his ...

Stepan Karagodin, center, was a prosperous peasant farmer and village leader who resisted the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. His great-grandson Denis Karagodin has spent years piecing ...