As we mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, RFE/RL is looking again at some of the factors that determined the course of the struggle and shaped the new world that emerged from it.

When Soviet prisoners came home after World War II, Stalin did not greet them as heroes. He branded many of them traitors, sending some to labor camps and others to execution. That fear helped define ...

“Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941” is the second volume of a planned trilogy on the life of Joseph Stalin. (Uncredited) Perspective by Ronald Grigor Suny A frenzy of hunting for spies and ...

Most Russians blame the Soviet leadership under dictator Joseph Stalin for the huge losses of life the country suffered during the World War II, an opinion poll suggested on Sunday. Most of the 1,600 ...

We knew Stalin had his head in the sand as the Nazi invasion approached in June 1941, but not how criminally deluded he was, despite intelligence reports and the urgings of his two top military ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Josef Stalin rose from obscure origins in Georgia to rule the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. RFE/RL takes a look at some images from his early life. (11 PHOTOS) 1 A portrait ...

VOSKRESENSK: A group of Soviet mechanics slog through a muddy forest on a mission that would eventually help change the course of World War II: reaching dictator Joseph Stalin. Among them is an ...