MOSCOW—Russia’s state atomic energy agency has seen fit to mount two full-sized figures of Lavrenty Beria, one of the most ghoulish villains of the Great Purge, in its latest exhibition. The bizarre ...

Ukrainian officials have announced a criminal investigation into Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria, for the mass deportation of Muslim Tatars from the Crimean ...

MOSCOW -- Russia's Rosatom atomic energy agency plans to put up two statues of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's notorious secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, considered by many as a key force behind ...

In April 1937, Bronka Poskrebysheva, the glamorous wife of Alexander Poskrebyshev, Stalin's chef de cabinet, arranged to meet Stalin alone at his dacha to plead for the life of her arrested brother.

Reports said on Thursday the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office had gathered evidence for charges against Stalin and Beria over the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 SIMFEROPOL, May 19. /TASS/.

Russia's state archive has published formerly top secret Soviet-era documents on the April 1940 Katyn massacre on its website. They include a key letter to then Soviet leader Joseph Stalin from secret ...

Armando Iannucci’s The Death Of Stalin, a feature adaptation of Fabien-Nury’s acclaimed graphic novel that follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime following his ...

Georgia is a proud and fiery republic on the Black Sea, abutting on Armenia and Turkey, where Asia and Europe meet. A mountain-girt southland, incorporated in the Soviet Union in 1921, and still ...

What the non-Communist world had never thought to hear admitted, the leaders of world Communism last week openly confessed. The Kremlin itself published proof positive that Soviet “justice” is based ...

Lavrenty Beria with Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana / RIA Novosti Here are three of the most beguiling Soviet-era mysteries. Among these secrets we investigate the death of Stalin's executioner, ...

In the television age, when history is often seen as part of the entertainment industry, it is hard to imagine how, in authoritarian states where, as George Orwell put it, “He who controls the past ...