The tragic history of trauma and repression in Chechnya must be a warning for those who want to abandon Ukraine.

Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

the main reason why Vavilov was under secret surveillance by the Soviet political police, the OGPU (later the NKVD), from the 1920s on. The second part of the book focuses on Vavilov's fall from ...

Stalin hesitated for almost two weeks in May-June 1937 before giving the NKVD the go ahead for the purge of the top Red Army leadership. His response to the growing evidence provided by Nicolai Yezhov ...

Exactly 85 years ago, Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered the ... The 1943 exhumation of a mass grave of Polish officers killed by the NKVD in the Katyn Forest in 1940.Photo: Unknown, probably ...

Blunt became a communist in the early 1930s and was recruited by the NKVD (later KGB), the Soviet security agency. While teaching at Cambridge University, Blunt was influential in recruiting the ...