History is replete with cautionary tales about the dangers of ideological purges, particularly when they target national-security institutions. One of the starkest examples comes from the Soviet Union ...

The Soviet Union entered war already damaged from within. This episode explains how Stalin’s purges destroyed experienced military leadership, spread fear through the command structure, and left the ...

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army. This was done through three show trials ...

For the last three decades, Razumov has worked through archives to make public the names of those executed during Stalin's purges in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, which targeted suspected ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.