Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...

He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29, 1949 the assembled bomb was wheeled to the tower. The blast was scheduled for 6 am.

In 2019 the last Soviet leader was admitted for pneumonia. Gorbachev was the top Soviet leader when he held the posts of general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the ...

“[He] has used these services to turn out people in his Soviet Jewry demonstrations.” The informant also cites Brooks as saying that Light, leader of the Bay Area Council for Soviet ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms, including allowing massive numbers of Jews to emigrate to Israel, changed his country and the world, died at 91. Russian media said ...