A new report, published by the Russian specialists at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank on Thursday, said the past year had seen a "monthslong purge" across Russia's ...

Communist Russia, unlike Nazi Germany, washes much of its dirty linen in public and last week characteristically made public the weirdest abuses of the purge. In the mountain town of Leninsk ...

TASS/. Russia used to live by someone else’s rules, an is going through a purge now, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "What happened in the previous years was largely because we ...

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 ...