MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's highest court on Thursday refused to legally rehabilitate Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet-era NKVD secret police who oversaw Stalinist purges in the 1930s and set up ...
ONE WHO SURVIVED—The Life Story of a Russian under the Soviets—Alexander Barmine—Putnam ($3.75). Whoever else buys this book, one copy will almost certainly be bought by the NKVD, Russia’s secret ...