After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...

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 ...

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 ...

A monument has been erected in the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk to honor victims of the brutal purges from the 1930s to the 1950s, despite efforts by the Russian government to glorify Soviet ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

(Adds survivor's story) By Oleg Shchedrov BUTOVO, Russia, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his respects on Tuesday to millions of people killed under Soviet dictator Josef ...