Two new historical dramas, “Two Prosecutors” and “Palestine ’36,” are built around courageous acts of opposition and unfold ...

The Village Voice reviews Sergei Loznitsa’s "Two Prosecutors," film about prisoners trapped in Stalin's authoritarian maze of bureaucracy.

As the cashiering of members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) high command continues to roll on, some analysts have suggested that the removals by President Xi Jinping are akin to the ...

Set during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, Sergei Loznitsa’s film follows a naive young lawyer as he attempts to navigate his country’s legal system.

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army. This was done through three show trials ...

A new report reveals that Xi Jinping’s sweeping purge has removed more than half of the PLA’s senior officers, raising questions about China’s readiness for a Taiwan contingency ...

The scale of Secretary General Xi Jinping’s military purges is shocking. More than 100 senior leaders have been removed since ...

Monaco's 'Playboy Prince' - who turns 68 today -cuts a rather solitary figure after he severed ties with the four men who ...

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles in exile, the troika between Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Stalin ...

The United States moved to 2-0 in the 2026 World Baseball Classic with a 9-1 win over Great Britain. The game didn’t start the way Team USA would have liked, as Great Britain’s Nate Eaton hit the ...

According to Golfo Alexopoulos and new evidence, the essential purpose of the Gulags was violent human exploitation. The system of exploitation during Stalin’s years was unchanging, punitive, and ...

BEIJING (AP) — China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday said political loyalty in the military must be ensured and called for resolutely pushing forward the fight against corruption as a military ...