Did it mean Russian support for the Treaty of Versailles and the Polish Corridor? Germany must know! Stalin must speak! — such was the smart Tageblatt-Ludwig gate-crashing approach.

The "second Stalin" was Ivan the Terrible, known for centralizing power and expanding Russian territories in the 16th century ...

On 11th September 1930, members of an elusive secret society were arrested by Joseph Stalin's secret police. Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was ...

It’s a miracle that Michael Lockshin’s adaptation of The Master and Margarita made it to Russian screens ... not be published during his lifetime. Stalin would not have liked it.

The Russian release of British comedy film The Death of Stalin has been shelved following a screening before senior figures on Monday night. The Russian attendees complained that the satire ...

Authorities in northwestern Russia’s Vologda region unveiled a statue of Joseph Stalin over the weekend, the latest monument to the Soviet dictator to have sprung up in the country in recent years.

Composer Alexander Manotskov fiercely disputes the image of a Russian regime closely watching and restricting artistic freedom, which is a familiar and longstanding trope in the West. Instead he ...