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A portrait of Stalin, 1933. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Great Terror

Motives for the Great Terror Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin, head of the Bolshevik party, died in 1924. Stalin had to fight his way to political succession, but ultimately declared himself dictator in 1929. Upon Stalin’s rise to power, some members of the former Bolshevik party began to question his authority. By the mid-1930s, Stalin […]

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The Romanov family: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with his wife, Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt, and her daughters, Ol'ga, Tat'jana, Marjia e Anastasia and Aleksej. 1913

Romanov Family

Peter the Great The Romanovs were high-ranking aristocrats in Russia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1613, Mikhail Romanov became the first Romanov czar of Russia, following a fifteen-year period of political upheaval after the fall of Russia’s medieval Rurik dynasty. He took the name Michael I. Michael I’s grandson Peter I, also known […]

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A Russian armored troop-carrier moves with soldiers atop next to a house set on fire by South Ossetian militia on in August, 2008.

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How a Five-Day War With Georgia Allowed Russia to Reassert Its Military Might

Moscow’s aggressive reaction to its long-simmering tensions with the former Soviet republic signaled a newly assertive Russia.

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Lenin vs Stalin: Their Showdown Over the Birth of the USSR

Even after suffering a stroke, Lenin fought Stalin from the isolation of his bed. Especially after Stalin insulted his wife.

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U.S. President Bill Clinton breaking into laughter after Russian President Boris Yeltsin made a comment about journalists at a news conference in Hyde Park, New York on October 23, 1995.

When a Russian President Ended Up Drunk and Disrobed Outside the White House

Was Bill Clinton’s 1994 meeting with Boris Yeltsin the most hilariously awful state visit in history?

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circa 1935: Studio portrait of Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), wearing eyeglasses and a white jacket. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Trotsky Assassination

Read about the tale of deceit, betrayal and a pickaxe-wielding secret agent behind Leon Trotsky’s assassination.

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1988

Renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov visits United States

Cold War
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