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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

He says he wrote A Kingdom and a Village ‘out of nostalgia for pre-oligarch decrepitude, when the world looked at Moscow with ...

They are called Svan Towers. Stark stone towers built to keep warmth in and invaders out. Located high in the remote valleys of the Upper Caucasus mountain range they were meant to be the highlight, ...

Some leaders are celebrated, quoted, and taught, while others are feared, condemned, or remembered for the chaos they left ...

Islam is a religion of peace, as are Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. Humanism, too, is a pathway of peace. During Ramadhan, Muslims are ...