the Eastern Bloc consisted of many Eastern European countries which were under the influence of the USSR. These included Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. After Stalin's death in 1953 ...

Between the 1920s and 1950s, the Soviet Union experienced one of the most brutal internal campaigns in modern history. Known as the Red Terror, it began under Lenin and escalated under Stalin into ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

The year was 1938. Joseph Stalin manned the helm of the Soviet Union, and all of its implications, such as the unforgiving purges, were in full effect. Anatole Konstantin, who was ten-years-old at ...