In the ruins of postwar Europe, Stalin’s Soviet Union moves from “liberator” to occupier, using Red Army power, the NKVD, ...

Stalin spoke of the continuity of Soviet policy. If anything were to happen to him, there would be good men ready to step into his shoes. —Winston Churchill in Triumph and Tragedy Georgy Malenkov was ...

STALIN (516 pp.)—Leon Trotsky— Harper ($5). It is as hard for a man to escape assassination as it is to lay a ghost. If the assassins know their trade, if they are backed by the resources and the ...

There was a lapse of five years between the first time that the FBI’s heat came on Stalinist agent Mark Zborowski, in 1953, and when he finally appeared before the court for perjury in 1958. His ...

Lavrentiy Beria was a truly evil man. From 1938 to 1953, Beria was chief of Joseph Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD. Under Beria, the NKVD conducted purges of Communist Party loyalists and executed ...

The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War; by Alan Philps; Pegasus Books; 464 pp, $29.95 During World War II, the Metropol provided a base for a ...

Things changed dramatically in the mid-1930s when Stalin began the great purge. As Boris Volodarsky notes in Stalin’s Agent, many spies and secret police knew exactly what this meant. False ...

NPR's Cheryl Corley speaks with investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov about his recent piece in Foreign Affairs entitled "Putin's New Police State." As the war in Ukraine rages on, there's been a ...

MOSCOW -- Denis Karagodin has spent almost a decade compiling a meticulous record of evidence about the murder of his great-grandfather by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's secret police, running a ...