The History Channel provides a biographical look at the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, beginning with his early career, rise to power, time as a Soviet leader, and the partial dismantling of his police state in the years after his death.

The article from the Hoover Digest provides accounts of the falsification of photographs, art, and records in Stalinist Russia from a book by David King, "the Commissar Vanishes."

Article examining the events surrounding the famine that Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union forced causing seven million deaths.

Russian Life offers this article that analyzes Khrushchev and his de-Stalinization policies during the 1950s and 1960s.

This site provides a brief biography of Joseph Stalin from his brief studies at Tiflis Orthodox Theological Seminary to his brutal, dictatorial reign over the Soviet Union from 1924 - 1953.

Describes the Bolshevist Economic Model which was founded by Joseph Stalin.

This site provides a comprehensive overview of many conferences between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and the Allies' conferences with Stalin and others during World War II and includes links to related resources and media.

Describes how the Soviets under Stalin managed to infiltrate Eastern European countries and establish Communist governments, dividing the continent into East and West with a symbolic Iron Curtain separating the two. America scrambled to...

Examines the conditions that fostered the rise of Fascism and Nazism, the events during the lead-up to the outbreak of war, and what Roosevelt did to help affected nations yet still keep the United States neutral.

After Franklin Roosevelt's meeting with other Allied leaders in Tehran and Cairo in December, 1943, he gave a fireside chat on December 24 to inform the American public what transpired and how the Allies planned on ending the war.

[Free Registration/Login Required] New York Times correspondent Jason DeParle reflects on the controversial legacy of the Yalta Conference. (November 26, 1989)

This site describes how The Soviet Military Administration in Germany ran Eastern Germany after WWII. Describes disarmament, the Communist Party, and anti-Nazism. Site is brief but informative.

Describes Hitler's military strategy during the invasion of Russia and the Battle of Stalingrad where the Germans suffered massive losses.

Resource provides the definition of Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and Militarism together with comparisons and examples of the regimes and the dictators who assumed absolute power leading up to WW2.

Learn about the Berlin blockade by the Soviets that closed the entry points to the Western zones of Berlin.