Fear of provoking Hitler, a purged and hesitant intelligence service, and German disinformation blinded the Kremlin. This ...

There’s no doubt the sweeping purge was ordered by President Xi Jinping. Though framed as a massive anti-corruption drive to ...

When Germany attacked, the USSR was unready — not by chance, but by fear and repression. Stalin’s purges had wiped out thousands of capable officers, paralyzing command and crippling response. With ...

When Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker in 1945, he was directly responsible for the deaths of more than ten ...

Underlying all the lies and historical falsifications in Trump's declaration are the fears of a ruling class that is ...

Zuma aligns with African autocrats while orchestrating MK purges, showing a style that prioritises family and authority over ...

Many were remembering relatives who were targeted in the dictator's infamous purges, marking Russia's annual day of remembrance. But while the focus was ostensibly on the past, one couldn't help but ...

Shostakovich is remembered by contemporaries who were interviewed many decades later as a student of single-minded ...

Months after his disappearance from public view, news has finally surfaced regarding the fate of Central Military Commission (CMC) Vice Chairman He Weidong. On October 17, a spokesman for China’s ...

Fifty years ago, in November 1975, a political officer in the Soviet Union’s Baltic Fleet launched an armed mutiny in hopes ...

A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is ...

The Jews” became a topic of conversation over the last week after Tucker Carlson interviewed someone named Nick Fuentes, a ...