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

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Great Terror was, moreover, a unique book at the time of its initial ...

One of the most traumatic episodes in the history of the Soviet Union and Russia goes under the name ‘1937’. Historians are still unclear whether the purges of that year were the most wide-ranging or ...

I met Robert Conquest two summers ago in Palo Alto, which he has made his home, as a fellow of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, for the past two decades. Christopher Hitchens had sent ...

This Appendix to Vadim Rogovin's work, “Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR” uses official archival data to reveal the true scale of the ...