Right. It’s been people like Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler and Khrushchev and Khomeini. So he’s in that kind of company as well. Hitler was named Time’s “Man of the Year” in 1938 while ...

The cerebral hemorrhage that killed Stalin—if that is what did it—assuredly left behind the man of some future year. Perhaps he was Georgy Malenkov, the suety, waxen-faced Great Russian who do ...

Rogovin insists that it is impossible to understand the purges apart from Stalin’s determination to stamp out all vestiges of Trotsky’s influence which, despite years of repression ...

But this powerful man began life as the son of an alcoholic ... The Cold War begins in earnest. In Stalin’s last years he becomes increasingly suspicious, and continues to conduct purges against ...