The Soviet Union entered war already damaged from within. This episode explains how Stalin’s purges destroyed experienced ...

History is replete with cautionary tales about the dangers of ideological purges, particularly when they target national-security institutions. One of the starkest examples comes from the Soviet Union ...

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...

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A monument has been erected in the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk to honor victims of the brutal purges from the 1930s to the 1950s, despite efforts by the Russian government to glorify Soviet ...

Written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by Ben Wolfe, “Describe the Night” provides a chilling, tragic account covering nine decades of oppression, fear, paranoia, state violence and the suppression of ...

The Soviet Union was officially formed in 1922, a country, a political experiment, an ideal, a great scar across history. Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR was a ...