Stalin's Ghost

Long after his death and denunciation and decades after the end of Communism, Stalin remains a spectral presence in Russian cultural life. In a nation still grappling with its history and unable to detach the deadly legacy of the 'Kremlin Crag Dweller' from the dreams of a Red Empire or his role in the victory of the Great Patriotic War, where is Stalin in the cultural imagination?

Martin Sixsmith explores Stalin's presence and power from the last decades of Soviet rule through to the age of Putin and asks can what kind of Stalin still lingers in words and song?

Producer: Mark Burman.