This episode traces Joseph Stalin’s rise from poverty to absolute power. Through purges, famine, forced labor, and war, he ...

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 Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses of any country as it fought the Nazis in World War II. The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up state archives and historians came up with a new ...

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 ...

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, his adaptation of Georgy Demidov’s eponymous novel, is set in the Soviet Union in 1937 during Stalin’s Great Purge and tells the story of a young ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Comrade Stalin is back — at least underground. A monument to the Soviet dictator, once torn down, has been replicated and reinstalled in a Moscow metro station. The original statue, depicting Joseph ...