Stalin thrives in the chaos post WW1 but his rise to leadership does not go unchallenged. Show more With the First World War underway, Stalin’s journey to dictatorship grinds into gear. After ...

We cover foreign assistance in industrial growth, the rise of game-changing tanks like the T-34 and KV-1, and how Stalin’s purges devastated military leadership just as war loomed. More for You ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday compared the war in Ukraine to the “terrible Holodomor genocide” of the 1930s, when the policies of the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, caused a devastating famine in ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town of Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany. The ...

Stalin thrives in the chaos post WW1 but his rise to leadership does not go unchallenged. ... Joseph Stalin Part 2: The Secretary Becomes Dictator.