In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...
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 ...
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