When Sergei Kirov, Stalin’s closest political ally, was assassinated in 1934, it set off one of the deadliest crackdowns in Soviet history. What followed wasn’t just an investigation—it was a national ...

In 1938, Stalin’s sweeping purge decimates the Red Army’s leadership, executing or imprisoning thousands. The motives remain ...

The Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses of any country as it fought the Nazis in World War II. The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up state archives and historians came up with a new ...

For the last three decades, Razumov has worked through archives to make public the names of those executed during Stalin's purges in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, which targeted suspected ...

The firing of the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency echoes the USSR of 90 years ago. Throughout the 1930s, Joseph Stalin conducted purges of his military (among other agencies). There were ...

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, his adaptation of Georgy Demidov’s eponymous novel, is set in the Soviet Union in 1937 during Stalin’s Great Purge and tells the story of a young ...

This is a film about Russia, set in Russia, and made by a filmmaker educated there, yet it was produced by France, Germany, the Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, and Lithuania. And that is very apparent ...

Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous ...

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