The anti-communist Russian Second Lieutenant Shilo and his defection to the German “camp” – His assignment to eliminate ...

As 2025 barrels towards its depressing conclusion, I look back at the damage federal science and medicine have sustained thus far under Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. through the lens of a cla ...

On December 15, 1937, at the height of the Great Terror in Stalin's Soviet Union, the ethnic cleansing of thousands of Greeks began. It was the day when the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal ...

Review of Roman Skakun’s book “The NKVD–MGB–KGB Agent Network within the Orthodox Episcopate of Ukraine (1939–1964): Formation, Functions, Models of Behavior” (Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University ...

On October 29, all over the world, a memorial event for the victims of political terror, “Returning the Names,” took place. The names of the repressed — including those being repressed today — were ...

How political ideology and violence can lay waste to scientific achievement, and the resilience and resolve of scientists committed to their mission despite persecution, war and starvation, is the ...

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 ...

The chilling finale to Poland’s 1939 tragedy is revealed: the mass execution and deportation of its citizens and leaders. After dividing Poland with Hitler, Stalin’s NKVD launched a campaign of ...

Unlike ordinary German POWs, captured Waffen-SS men were considered war criminals by the Red Army. For Stalin’s Soviet Union, they weren’t just prisoners they were executioners, symbols of Hitler’s ...

Zorya was born in 1923 to Galina Serebryakova and Leonid Serebryakov, an Old Bolshevik worker who had joined the party at the age of 14 in 1905. The year of her birth was a fateful one in the ...

Faculty of Law and Political Science / CEAD, Lusófona University, Porto, Portugal For self-evident reasons of historical synchrony, most research probing the frontiers between totalitarianism studies ...