In the years when Georgy Malenkov was Stalin’s personnel manager, he helped his boss build up a hierarchy of young technocrat-commissars. To get his men into key jobs, Malenkov had to shove out many a ...

Gathered around the body of Joseph Stalin (played by Adrian McLoughlin) are, from left, Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov, Dermot Crowley as Lazar Kaganovich and ...

Armando Ianucci, best known for creating ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘Veep’, moves to 1953 Russia for his latest political satire, mining the aftermath of the Soviet dictator’s passing for maximum laughs.

Global Look Press Immediately following Stalin’s death, his inner circle was embroiled in a merciless power struggle. Proximity to the deceased autocrat was actually a compromising factor that could ...

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There’s a leadership vacuum at the top and the government is dominated by idiots. An inner circle full of hard-liners, misfits and preening malcontents desperately jockeys for position. And this is ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The current political climate is far from funny – but Armando Iannucci’s new satire looks set ...

Now that the American government has become indistinguishable from your average Veep episode, series creator Armando Iannucci has decided to take on amore light-hearted topic for his next film: ...