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A review of Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography of the early years of the notorious Russian dictator, the self-styled Red Tsar.

Theories about Stalin's motives span the personal, political, and pathological.

Through a combination of ruthlessness and guile, Stalin succeeded in consolidating his power in the vast Soviet bureacracy of his early career.

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Emma Woikin, born a prairie Doukhobor became a cipher clerk in Ottawa during World War II. In March 1946 she pleads guilty to spying for a country she loved, Russia.

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The Russian steppe city of Elista is a fascinating mix of cultures, now graced with a Tibetan Bhuddist temple and experiencing a cultural rebirth.

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One of the 1930s' best military innovators was the USSR's Marshal Tukhachevskii. His death, along with other officer victims of Stalin, destroyed the Red Army.

For decades the Soviet Union threw innocent citizens into gulags in accord with the systematic terror and paranoia that characterized the totalitarian state.

Through interviews and family archives, Orlando Figes weaves the story of the triumphs and tragedies of the ordinary people who lived in Stalin's Russia.

Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Reyes Basoalto on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile. Chiefly a writer of sentimental doggerel, he is most famous for his politics.

Lenin, having suffered multiple strokes, was held captive by Stalin in the months before his death. The cult of Lenin granted him godlike status.

Although the Yalta Conference addressed a variety of issues including Soviet participation against Japan, the post-war status of Poland was at the top of the agenda.

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There were attempts, both sincere and fanciful, to solve the 'Jewish Question' by setting up a Jewish homeland in unlikely places far away from the Middle East.

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Take a self-guided tour of the "people's palaces"--the underground kingdom of the Moscow Metropolitan, admiring the mosaics and marble of this utopia underground

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Brief biography of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, his life and works. One of 20th century's greatest symphonists, famous for Symphony No.5.

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Both assuming eventual victory, early in the war the Nazi German and Communist Russian governments analyzed and began to implement plans for Eastern Europe

The United States and the Soviet Union each contributed much to the defeat of a common enemy in World War II. How did they become bitter adversaries so quickly?

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Easy comparisons to the Soviet Union's prison camps fail to convey the human suffering that took place in the Gulag system

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The American military and political machine was set in motion and did not stop until the war was won.

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Although elements of the Cold War may have originated at Yalta, the Potsdam Conference validated Soviet European occupation and produced new global conflicts.

Selling over 30 million copies in 35 languages, the three-volume work's unrelenting indictment of Communism made it one of the most important books of the 20th century.

Architectural and artistic highlights, history behind some of stations on the Dark Blue Line of the Moscow Metropolitan, the transport web of the Russian capitol

A lavish Busby Berkeley-style musical, a critique of race intolerance, and Stalin's favorite actress add up to a movie that was wildly popular in the 1930s USSR.

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