Utopia, which had inspired the classic sf writers of the revolutionary period, and had been outlawed by Stalin, once again became topical. As Khrushchev’s Communist Party itself incorporated utopian ...

John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

Stalin’s successor Khrushchev denounces the dead dictator and begins a wave of "destalinization." From schoolboy failure to wartime hero, Winston Churchill's astonishing life has made him a ...

Some of the early actions of the new Trump administration are very ominous.

Khrushchev, at 58 a cold and colorless “100% Stalin man,” has been given unfettered authority to discipline 6,880,000 members of the Russian Communist Party, and to weld together even more ...

In February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev delivered his “secret speech” to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, in which he denounced some of Stalin’s crimes, but deliberately excluded ...

permanent Soviet seal on Joseph Stalin as a monster and that this act set Khrushchev free to attack the established bureaucracy, to campaign for better food and housing, and, best news of all for ...

Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as head of the Soviet Communist Party, on March 14 1953, just nine days after Stalin’s death. In 11 years, the gregarious commissar left his mark on the world.

Several Soviet leaders were worried that Beria was hoping to become as powerful as Stalin had been. And so in July of that year, Nikita Khrushchev arranged to have him arrested, denouncing him as ...

The incoming president is a two-time winner of the title like former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin ... Soviet Union Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and former Supreme Leader of ...