The Death of Stalin 2017 In early 1953 Moscow, under the Great Terrors heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever watchful Soviet leader, Iosif Stalin, collapses, unexpectedly, of a brain haemorrhage As a result, when someone discovers his body the following morning, a frenetic surge of raw panic starts spreading like a virus amongst the senior members of the Council of Ministers, as they scramble to maintain order, weed out the competition, and, ultimately, take power But, in the middle of a gut wrenching roller coaster of incessant plotting, tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin