Stalinism is a word used to describe a particular brand of communism, often used of European communists or communist parties. It means the most hardline, inflexible and undemocratic version of Marxist-Leninism, and is associated with the style of...

Stalinism, according to proponents of the term, is the political regime named after Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1924-1953. Proponents of the term argue that it includes an extensive use of propaganda to establish a personality cult...

The nature of the beast STALIN by Robert Service Macmillan, £25, pp. 714, ISBN 0333726278 * £23 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 Robert Service has set himself a formidable task. He has to explain how the son of a wife-beating, dirt-poor Georgian...

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Galina Dzhugashvili, a granddaughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who challenged widely accepted accounts of her father's internment at a Nazi prison camp, has died in Moscow, a hospital official said Tuesday. She was 69.Dzhugashvili died Monday evening at Burdenko military hospital after a struggle...

Historians announced a project Wednesday to increase understanding of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's rule and help Russians come to terms with one of the grimmest chapters of their past.The project's ambitious aim is to publish 100 volumes by Russian and foreign historians in the next...

After 1941 Stalinism took on a new form and a new dimension - Discuss this opinion in relation to the history of the USSR between 1941 and 1953.