The Great Purge was more than a political campaign—it was a tragedy that reshaped the Soviet Union and left millions dead or imprisoned. This video dives into the causes, methods, and impact of ...

Zhemkova said more than 30,000 people were shot in Moscow alone in 1937-38, the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, according to her group’s research.

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Some of Russia's leading cultural figures say Dmitriev was framed because his focus on Stalin's crimes - he found a mass grave with up to 9,000 bodies dating from the Soviet dictator's Great ...

There are some signs that it is having an effect: About 56 percent of Russians said they considered Stalin a “great leader,” according to research from the Levada Center, an independent pollster.

For 12 hours, relatives of those executed, rights activists, and other participants read aloud the names, ages, occupations, and execution dates of some of the estimated 1 million or more Soviet ...

Joseph Stalin ranks as one of the greatest tyrants of all time, responsible for the deaths of 20 million of his own countrymen. This portrait revisits the life of "Uncle Joe" via Soviet archival ...

Reuters published a piece on the genocidal leader of the Soviet Union Friday, titled, "70 years after death, Stalin's polarizing legacy looms large." It described how "attitudes to the Soviet ...

During the Great Purge (1936-38), also known as the "Great Terror," Joseph Stalin engaged in a brutal campaign to neutralize anyone perceived as disloyal or a threat to his rule.

Imprisoned Russian politicians -- including Kremlin critics Aleksei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza -- along with other activists are holding a one-day hunger strike on October 30 to honor ...

A bas-relief featuring a Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, recently unveiled at the Moscow Metro’s Taganskaya station. IL50 via Wikimedia Commons “For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons ...