Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.

There's one thing we can be sure about: Joseph Stalin was terrifying. The man was a ruthless, unrelenting dictator who killed millions of his own people without a second thought, and his mark on ...

August: The Russians and the Germans sign a non-aggression pact. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agree not to invade each other's borders. The two leaders secretly plan to divide Poland and other ...

Despite that, it occupied the islands in less than a month. About 17,000 Japanese nationals were living there but when Joseph Stalin annexed the islands he deported them all. In 1956, the 2 ...

He died aged 56 from suicide. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. 1878 – 1953. Born in the town of Gori, Georgia he was brought up in an impoverished and itinerant family environment. In his early life, ...