By mid-October 1941, most of Moscow's residents were convinced that their city was about to be overrun by the Germans. The NKVD, as the Soviet secret police was then called, had prepared the first of ...

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, volume II, Stephen Kotkin, ... Stalin wiped out the officer corps of the Red Army, including leading theoretician Marshal Tukhachevsky.

Stalin was especially displeased with the existence of one particular photograph, ... Tukhachevsky, Yezhov and many other major political figures. If using any of Russia Beyond's content, ...

Red army over to Hitler. Now the party leaders are saying in effect that Stalin, not Tukhachevsky, was the traitor. The stigma of betrayal has been transferred from the army to the party.

Stalin thus is still recognized in Jugoslavia, but as an historical figure. As a living force, ... Tukhachevsky, Bukharin, and the rest. Trotsky fled, and was punished.

However, in 1936, he, along with Soviet Marshal Tukhachevsky and other high officers of the Soviet army, was accused by the Stalin apparatus of having had treasonous dealings with the Nazi regime ...

The satellites then in the revolutionary planetarium were Zinoviev, Kamenev, Radek, Bukharin and perhaps Kalinin. Stalin was practically unknown till 1923-24. ... Only Stalin has survived. Of the ...

John Mosier, a professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, says in his latest book, Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin: The Eastern Front, 1941-1945, that Stalin and his gang could be trusted.

While Shostakovich was at work on the Fifth, one of his highest-ranking supporters, the Soviet general Mikhail Tukhachevsky, had been executed. Not only the composer’s career but also, possibly ...