After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles in exile, the troika between Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Stalin ...

When Sergei Kirov, Stalin’s closest political ally, was assassinated in 1934, it set off one of the deadliest crackdowns in ...

A group of Russian scientists have sounded the alarm over what they said were attempts by the head of the security service to openly justify Stalins mass purges, the first such attempt in decades. In ...

The firing of the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency echoes the USSR of 90 years ago. Throughout the 1930s, Joseph Stalin conducted purges of his military (among other agencies). There were ...

Stalin's reign saw millions executed and sent to Gulag prison camps or exile in remote regions, with many released only after his death in 1953. Although the flower-laying ceremony takes place by the ...

Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous examples of persecution.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Lefortovo prison, where American journalist ...

He pointed to Stalin's purges of tens of thousands of senior army officers before the war and his decision to imprison hundreds of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war whom he declared traitors for ...

This is a film about Russia, set in Russia, and made by a filmmaker educated there, yet it was produced by France, Germany, the Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, and Lithuania. And that is very apparent ...