Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stalin interrogated Sholokhov about ideologically problematic passages but agreed to the book’s publication on ...

The war in Korea has focused the news spotlight on some faces that have long been familiar to TIME readers — especially in times of trouble. This week General Bradley makes his fourth appearance on ...

From The News 65 years ago this week, a Pittsburgh grocer who grew up in Russia recalls the story of Stalin -- in the years before Stalin became a ruthless, murdering despot — as a fugitive who hid ...

The world’s dim picture of Joseph Stalin as a human being was sharpened up a little last week. The twelfth volume of Stalin’s collected works, issued in Moscow, contained an unpublished letter—a warm, ...