Joseph Stalin

The monument to “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky, the founder and patron saint of the Soviet secret police.

In the removal of a Soviet symbol of oppression, Russians see lessons for the US

History

As debates in the US rage over the removal of Confederate and other monuments that celebrate a racist past, some in Russia have been thinking hard about how people there confront their own history. 

A tale of two Russian anthems

Arts, Culture & Media

Why Stalin Remains Popular in Parts of Former Soviet Union

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Faking It: The Matrix

Global Politics

Soviet Espionage Legend Dies

Global Politics

Only Stalin Daughter Dies

Arts, Culture & Media

The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died of colon cancer last week in a Wisconsin care home, aged 85.

Stalinism Survivor Runs Gulag Museum In Moscow

Global Politics

Many Russians would rather forget the work camps of the Soviet past but a 91-year-old Gulag survivor keeps in trying to remind them. He runs the Gulag Museum in Moscow.

A New Angle On The Roswell Incident And Why Russians Like Conspiracy Theories

Arts, Culture & Media

Could the Roswell UFO really have been a Soviet spy plane?

Statue graveyard in Moscow

Global Politics

Near Gorky Park, lies a grassy area full of statues of former Soviet leaders. After the fall of Communism, they’re propped up again for all to see without explanations of their crimes. Jessica Golloher has the details from Moscow.

The Living on Earth Almanac

This week, facts about…Joseph Stalin’s great plan for the preservation of nature.