Xi Jinping’s military purge raises deep and urgent questions about the man atop the leadership of the world’s second-biggest economy.

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In January 1940, just about a month after the Soviet Union attacked Finland in what came to be known as the “Winter War,” General Semyon Timoshenko replaced Kliment Voroshilov, a close associate of ...

A junior American officer handed the Soviet general a glass bottle containing a dark fluid. He politely took a sip — and was ...

From a Georgian seminary student to the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin reshaped the 20th century. This biography traces his rise through the Bolshevik Revolution, his brutal ...

March 5 (Reuters) - The Communists of Russia party has asked the FSB security service and top prosecutors to investigate the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of ...

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government announced the “rescission” of a 1991 law officially rehabilitating past victims of political tyranny. Beginning in the late ’80s, an ...