Thousands of officers vanished just as Europe moved toward conflict. In 1938, Stalin ordered a massive purge of the Soviet ...

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

A group of Russian scientists have sounded the alarm over what they said were attempts by the head of the security service to openly justify Stalins mass purges, the first such attempt in decades. In ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...