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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...