Today marks 55 years since the death of Joseph Stalin. But in Russia, his terrible legacy will receive scant attention and will not be subject to repudiation by those at the apex of power. This is ...

Now in their 70s and 80s, children of the victims of Joseph Stalin’s political repressions remembered one of the darkest pages of Russia’s history at a ceremony Wednesday in central Moscow.

On October 30, Russia marked the Day of Memory of Victims of Political Repressions and the 70th anniversary of the Great Purge. In 1937, an order to conduct "a campaign to purge the former kulaks ...

Writing under pseudonyms, a Soviet historian and a German scientist undertake an analysis of the great purges of 1936-1939 in which they were both involved. Russian Purge and the Extraction of ...

MOSCOW — A Russian human rights group has published a database containing personal information about nearly 40,000 members of the notorious security force that carried out Soviet dictator Joseph ...

The Moscow Times, an anti-Kremlin Russian outlet, reports that he is under arrest, somewhat ironically, at Russia’s Lefortovo detention center. The prison is infamous as the site of torture and mass ...

A growing number of Russian leaders recognize that the country is in big trouble Corruption, most of it inherited from the communist period (1921-91), but some of it going back centuries, cripples the ...

ALTHOUGH the Russo-German Pact and the Soviet war on Finland caused a mass exodus of fellow travelers from the Communist fold, the Great Russian Illusion has not been destroyed. The belief that ...

On October 30, Russia marked the Day of Memory of Victims of Political Repressions and the 70th anniversary of the Great Purge. In 1937, an order to conduct "a campaign to purge the former kulaks ...