In it, Bolton compared Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, who was head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the ...

Stalin was furious. Secret police and army units poured across the countryside, seized grain stocks, ransacked barns and surrounded rebellious villages with machine guns. Houses, barns ...

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

members of an elusive secret society were arrested by Joseph Stalin's secret police. Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was an essential part of ...

not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he ... His activities become known to the Tsarist secret police and he is forced to go underground. He joins the Bolshevik party and conducts guerrilla ...