The letter, which has been fiercely disputed, was written by Anna Ulyanova in 1932 to Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor following his death in 1924. “He came from a poor Jewish family and was ...

Political observers here believe that Stalin, minister of nationalities, will succeed Lenin, although all admit that none can really fill the place of the governing mind of the revolution.

Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, who was regarded as one ... times and subjected to imprisonment and exile in Siberia. Lenin valued Stalin’s loyalty and appointed him after the Revolution ...

A murderous dictator, a megalomaniac, a psychopath – I’ve heard Joseph Stalin described as many ... He was so depressed that ...

Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, center, lays flowers at the grave of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin near the Kremlin Wall to mark the 72nd anniversary of his death, with ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin first heard officially from the ... Within five years of Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin had managed to firmly entrench himself in the role of indisputable ruler of ...

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 ...

By the time of his death in 1924, Lenin had created a one-party State and an elaborate system of control. Under Joseph Stalin, the pace of change accelerated as he sought to convert the country ...

An elderly woman holds a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin as she walks to lay flowers at his grave near the Kremlin Wall to mark the 72nd anniversary of ...