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

MOSCOW — Anna Akhmatova, the poet, died today, after a lifetime of controversy. According to Tass, the Soviet press agency, her age was 76.

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

“Policymakers and force planners should take Xi’s top-to-bottom purge of the officer corps as a sign of his impatience with ...

India, Feb. 14 -- A prominent critic of Stalin's policies and Soviet- era political analyst and author Roy Medvedev died on ...

On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

A bitter attack on Stalin accusing him of responsibility for massacre and torture during his 30 years in power has been made by Mr Khrushchev, according to reports from reliable Communist sources.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed yet another seismic purge in the People’s Liberation Army, removing two of its highest-ranking commanders: Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Gen.

The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through ...

At the height of his paranoid “Great Terror,” Joseph Stalin wiped out his own Red Army leadership, arresting two thirds of his generals and executing three of his five marshals. One begged for his ...

The constellation of powers that produced the eradication of the Armenian Christian presence in Nagorno Karabakh now have their sights on the Republic of Armenia itself.