Across continents and decades, these ‘praetorian guards’ have acted as both shield and sword, protecting rulers while enforcing fear. Their names change, their uniforms differ, but their mission remai ...

For a time, it was possible for the Jewish intellectuals of MAGA—a small but influential set of podcasters, columnists, and ...

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko lashed out at what she called a "purge" tied to elections in Ukraine after her offices were raided by corruption investigators probing alleged bribery ...

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles in exile, the troika between Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Stalin ...

Before power and terror defined him, Joseph Stalin was a young revolutionary in love. Kato Svanidze’s brief life and early ...

Written and directed by Alexey Evstigneev, 'Father's Letters' traces a correspondence between a father and his daughter, ...

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

Telluride is not on my annual festival calendar—too distant, too costly—and rarely I’m at Toronto, only with a film. So as a ...

It was a special Christmas in 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. Then on Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union’s bloody hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time from the roof of ...

In late November, a mental health leader at a major VA medical center learned about a directive issued to the 18 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) regional offices, known as VISNs (Veterans ...