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 ...