https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/joseph-stalin/RSS feed for Joseph StalinenSat, 28 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discover-the-story-behind-a-legendary-expose-of-the-brutality-of-the-soviet-union-180985658/Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a political dissident in a prison camp, but it left him deported and stateless for the next two decadesSat, 28 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discover-the-story-behind-a-legendary-expose-of-the-brutality-of-the-soviet-union-180985658/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-winston-churchill-through-the-eyes-of-the-political-cartoonists-he-inspired-180985640/A new exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum brings together political cartoons from around the world that celebrate and satirize the wartime prime ministerThu, 12 Dec 2024 15:36:17 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-winston-churchill-through-the-eyes-of-the-political-cartoonists-he-inspired-180985640/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-hitler-and-stalin-hated-esperanto-the-135-year-old-language-of-peace-180980472/Jewish doctor L.L. Zamenhof created Esperanto as a way for diverse groups to easily communicateTue, 26 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-hitler-and-stalin-hated-esperanto-the-135-year-old-language-of-peace-180980472/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/vladimir-putins-rewriting-of-history-draws-on-a-long-tradition-of-soviet-myth-making-180979724/Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrativeFri, 18 Mar 2022 11:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/vladimir-putins-rewriting-of-history-draws-on-a-long-tradition-of-soviet-myth-making-180979724/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/officials-unearth-stalin-era-mass-grave-ukraine-180978570/In the late 1930s, the Soviet secret police buried some 5,000 to 8,000 people at a newly excavated site in OdessaFri, 03 Sep 2021 10:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/officials-unearth-stalin-era-mass-grave-ukraine-180978570/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-1943-khatyn-massacre-became-symbol-nazi-atrocities-eastern-front-180977280/Decades after the murder of 149 residents of a Belarusian village, the tragedy has taken on layers of meaning far removed from the attack itselfMon, 22 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-1943-khatyn-massacre-became-symbol-nazi-atrocities-eastern-front-180977280/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spy-museum-selling-most-its-stealthy-tools-180976223/Next February, Julien's Auctions will sell some 3,000 items from the shuttered KGB Espionage Museum's collectionFri, 06 Nov 2020 14:36:42 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spy-museum-selling-most-its-stealthy-tools-180976223/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/catherine-greats-lost-treasure-securing-animal-rights-and-other-new-books-read-180975721/These five September releases may have been lost in the news cycleFri, 04 Sep 2020 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/catherine-greats-lost-treasure-securing-animal-rights-and-other-new-books-read-180975721/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/incomplete-history-told-new-yorks-kgb-museum-180971458/Designed to be apolitical, the attraction offers whiz-bang tech without the agency's brutal pastFri, 08 Feb 2019 17:13:33 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/incomplete-history-told-new-yorks-kgb-museum-180971458/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stalin-180965119/“Veep” creator Armando Iannucci’s upcoming dark comedy pulls from the stranger-than-fiction real-life events surrounding Stalin’s deathTue, 10 Oct 2017 11:14:37 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stalin-180965119/