Soviet Union

John Etty charts the complex, and highly significant, relationship between Lenin and Stalin.

Vincent Barnett argues that surface differences should not cover up deep-seated similarities.

Clive Foss investigates how Stalin changed the calendar to keep the Soviet people continually at work.

George Watson considers how news of a political and moral bombshell was received, particularly by intellectuals on both the Left and the Right.

Geoffrey Roberts assesses Stalin’s changing reputation, 50 years after his death.

Stalin's security chief Lavrenti Beria was executed on December 23rd, 1953.

The Russian socialist movement divided on November 16th, 1903.

Ian Thatcher argues that surface similarities between the regimes of Hitler and Stalin disguise deep-seated differences.

The Soviet leader died on March 5th, 1953.

Paul Wingrove examines the starkly different interpretations that seek to explain the career of Joseph Stalin, who died fifty years ago this month.