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 ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Lefortovo prison, where American journalist ...