From Tsarist Russia to Stalin and the Cold War, the Soviet secret police evolved through endless name changes—but their ...

Unlike ordinary German POWs, captured Waffen-SS men were considered war criminals by the Red Army. For Stalin’s Soviet Union, ...

On April 7, 2010, Vladimir Putin traveled to the Katyn forest in Western Russia, in order to join the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in commemorating Stalin’s victims shot and buried there seventy ...

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 ...

With the founding of the Fourth International in September 1938, Stalin’s secret police turned all their attention to the assassination of its leader, Leon Trotsky. Barred from residence in almost ...

ST PETERSBURG, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russians came in dribs and drabs to lay flowers on Monday to the victims of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's purges, on an official day of remembrance largely shunned ...