Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union for 29 brutal years starting in 1923, led what is now known as the Great Purge. Between 1936 and 1938, Stalin’s goons killed a million people.

Stalin hid out in his dacha for 10 days before addressing the public, or how the execution of virtually all senior military commanders in the Great Purge contributed to the military disasters that ...

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Less than five years before the start of the Irish Civil War, the fratricidal terror that followed Russia’s October 1917 ...

Stalin hesitated for almost two weeks in May-June 1937 before giving the NKVD the go ahead for the purge of the top Red Army leadership. His response to the growing evidence provided by Nicolai Yezhov ...

The NKVD, the predecessor of the KGB, used the prison for interrogation and torture during Stalin's Great Purge in the 1930s. The purge was reported by Christo Grozev, executive director of ...