G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind.

A new monument to Soviet-era leader Josef Stalin is set to be erected soon in a city in northwest Russia following what the ...

and behind Stalin, youngish (47), tough Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, with Police Boss Lavrenty Beria on his right. The formation was revelatory—it said clearly that in the Soviet hierarchy ...

After eight years of Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, as President, Russians are encouraged to remember Stalin as a leader of genius and Beria as a brilliant manager. In May 2008, Yuri Mukhin ...

The key event is Stalin’s planned visit to Georgia, his birthplace, and Beria’s and Murtov’s. Beria grew up in Murtov’s household. As the author notes in an introduction, Beria was a ...

A new monument to Soviet-era leader Josef Stalin is set to be erected soon in a city in northwest Russia following what the ...

Stalin oversaw rapid industrialisation and victory ... Soviet leaders and photographs of secret police chiefs Lavrentiy Beria and Felix Dzerzhinsky hang on the walls of his office.