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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, his adaptation of Georgy Demidov’s eponymous novel, is set in the Soviet ...