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...will also play "Festive Overture" by Dmitri Shostokovich, who suffered as an artist under the terror and scrutiny of Josef Stalin. Another piece on the program is Charles Ives' "Variations on America," a joyous, disturbing, messy presentation...
...years ago, why were those in charge blind? On Wednesday a military commentator, noting 1,000 U.S. dead, quoted Josef Stalin saying "One death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic." U.S. ex-military quoting Stalin? What next...
...Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill departed Malta for the summit in Yalta with Soviet leader Josef Stalin. ? In 1996, dancer, actor and choreographer Gene Kelly died at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home; he was 83...
...that now bears his name. In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began conferring in Tehran during World War II. In 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashed...
...very dramatic fate of Solzhenitsyn's books," which helped reveal the brutality of the Soviet system and dictator Josef Stalin's labor camps. Natalya Solzhenitsyn recounted how that drama began on Nov. 18, 1936, when Solzhenitsyn, a first-year...
...Among the piles of books and papers in Brent's New Haven office is an enlarged copy of a memo to Soviet leader Josef Stalin recommending the execution of 16,000 Polish military officers in 1940. The mass killings were carried out by gunshots...
...in Sherman Oaks, Calif., at age 95. Actor Jonathan Brandis died in Los Angeles at age 27. In the world In 1927, Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
...the world In 1917, the British royal family adopted the name "Windsor." In 1945, President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. In...
...Francisco Bay. (Peterson, who maintains his innocence, was later sentenced to death.) I n the world In 1927, Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party. In 1942, the...
...the British Parliament. In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began conferring in Tehran, Iran, during World War II. In 1958, the African nation of Chad became an autonomous...