An extraordinary Soviet secret document has recently surfaced in Germany, shedding light on a figure buried deep within ...

At the Twentieth Party Congress in February 1956, two months after the successful test of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Khrushchev formally broke with Stalin's revolutionary tenet that a new world war ...

When the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on ... As a Central Committee member, he, as was party policy, was required to approve the arrests of thousands of people.