John Cheyne and William Stokes were nineteenth-century doctors who described a sort of labored, interrupted respiration sometimes seen among the dying. Their names have been part of everyday Russian ...

The project to create the monument to the Soviet dictator is being overseen by the governor of the Vologda region, Georgy ...

On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in Moscow ending a nearly 30-year reign that transformed the ...

TBILISI, Georgia — A shiny shard of nose and a crumbling sliver of whiskers from a long-destroyed stone statue are among Grigori Oniani's most prized possessions. That's because the pieces once were ...

Russian Communists queue to lay flowers at Stalin's grave to mark the 130th anniversary of his birth in Red Square, Moscow.Ivan Sekretarev / AP It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders ...

One Joseph Stalin was one too many. The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in for a ...