Holodomor was the man-made famine of 1932-1933 that saw millions of people die due to instructions laid out by Joseph Stalin, ...

Pakistani military and police authorities say 18 paramilitary troops and two dozen militants were killed overnight in fighting in the restive Balochistan Province in the country’s southwest ...

Stalin’s regular doctors were in prison — he was purging everyone, in that last period — but there were others, working busily, applying leeches to his neck and head. He died on March 5 ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

This volume is the first major study by a Russian Marxist historian of the most tragic and fateful year in the history of the Soviet Union. Possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet source ...

So it's an indication of the importance Stalin gave to the Soviet atomic bomb program that he appointed Beria to head it on August 7, 1945, the day after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.