He catches small pox aged seven and is left with ... and by the late 1920s he becomes dictator of the Soviet Union. In the late 1920s Stalin instigates a series of five year plans to turn the ...

A group of 10 to 15 year old boys from the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union arrived at the US ... It consisted of an antenna and a small cylinder. One side of the cylinder was ...

In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag ... forest These are some of the ruins of Josef Stalin’s abortive “Transpolar Mainline” railway.

Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, who was regarded as one of the ... Born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Stalin grew up in a poor small rural town of Gori, Georgia, then part of the Russian ...

We walk past a small ... some 40 percent see Stalin favorably. The Putin generation wants intact families and reliable, if unsatisfying, jobs. It associates the Soviet Union with longed-for ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29, 1949 the assembled bomb was wheeled ...

Historians estimate that tens of millions in the Soviet Union lost their lives in the massive democide under Stalin’s dictatorship. Communist China had its own large scale democide. Stalin ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...