For nearly 100 years, “attempting to overthrow the state system” has remained a popular method for Russian security forces to ...

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Sunday commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, describing it as a genocide ...

and in 1927 Lithuania was an independent country and not a part of the Soviet Union. In chapter 27, more serious problems arise. This chapter, about the NKVD investigation and Vavilov's trial ...

During WWII the NKVD changed its name briefly to NKGB ... A little boy who became famous throughout the Soviet Union and eventually the center of a cult of denunciation. Pavlik symbolized the ...

Acting under Stalin’s orders, NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria ... Many died en route, while the Soviet Union, like the Russian ...

Blunt became a communist in the early 1930s and was recruited by the NKVD (later KGB), the Soviet ... Burgess and Maclean defected to the Soviet Union, where they spent the rest of their lives.

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD ... ruler of the Soviet Union. His brutality was unremitting.

Stalin hesitated for almost two weeks in May-June 1937 before giving the NKVD the go ahead for the purge of the top Red Army leadership. His response to the growing evidence provided by Nicolai Yezhov ...