Things changed, as will be made clear. Svetlana’s mother was Stalin’s second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva (“Nadya”). She was not the maternal type. She was the Bolshevik type, devoted to Part ...

His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife his secretary, Nadezhda Allilueva, the young daughter of an old-line Bolshevik who had once ...

Historians say there is no evidence that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was Jewish or had Jewish ancestry, contrary to the ...

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Around 750,000 people are summarily killed. In 1919 Stalin marries his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva and they have two children – Svetlana and Vassily. He abuses Nadezhda and she eventually ...

Stalin had ordered that the plant be built in ... because the Soviet Union never compiled statistics. It’s a secret Nadezhda Kutepova fights against today. The atomic orphan draws her ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After Stalin had completed The Great Terror, a stupefying mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people – with even more sent to ...

“Young Stalin,” Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography chronicling the life of Joseph Stalin as a bank-robbing gangster in pre-revolutionary Russia, is being adapted for film. The feature is ...

The so-called Khrushchev Thaw, beginning with the new leader’s “secret speech” denouncing Stalin before the 1956 ... as the writer and educator Nadezhda Mandelstam once put it, that the ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has hinted at a cabinet reshuffle on his return from the US trip to draw investments to the state. There was intense speculation that the Dravida Munnetra ...

Stalin had ordered that the plant be built in ... because the Soviet Union never compiled statistics. It’s a secret Nadezhda Kutepova fights against today. The atomic orphan draws her ...