<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/stories/2010articles/july2010/070110paulgregory.php" dsn="news"><featured/><top-stories/><homepage/><pubDate>08/07/2017 04:17:06 PM</pubDate><title>Joseph Stalin's Rise to Power: Facts More Intriguing Than Fiction</title><subtitle/><description>More than 57 years after the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, scholars continue to uncover long-hidden truths about his rise to absolute power and the reign of “Great Terror” that took more than a million lives and exiled many millions more.</description><author>Melissa Carroll</author><author-email>mcarroll@uh.edu</author-email><author-phone/><image/><categories>Research</categories></item>