1. His name means man of steel It's true: Joseph Stalin was actually born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili (on December 18, 1878) and changed his name from his original in his 30s. Why Stalin? Because ...

Some of the Stalin nostalgia may be attributable to the coincidence (okay, not really a coincidence) that Stalin led the ...

By Matthew Purdy The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.

This prelude to our Eastern Front WWII series explores how Stalin reshaped the Soviet Union into a global military force.

With four engines and blistering supersonic speed, the Myasishchev M-50 was the USSR's ambitious answer to America’s bombers. Designed to unleash nuclear cruise missiles at Mach 2, it symbolized ...