It’s unusual for two masterpieces to appear within less than a year of each other on a subject that has already been pored over by countless writers from nearly every angle. That has now happened with ...

On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with Stephen Kotkin, a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union who has just published the massive second volume of his Joseph Stalin ...

Kotkin’s biography of Joseph Stalin is already monumental—and this is just the first entry in a planned trilogy. Stalin emerges here as a more vivid and complete figure than he does in countless other ...

Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist regime, ...