Tag: Great Purge
Stalin’s Final Hours: Abandoned on the Floor as Fear Paralyzed the Soviet Elite
By Fu Longshan On the evening of March 5, 1953, at 9:50 p.m., Joseph Stalin died. What followed was...
Recreating Stalin: The DNA Behind Xi Jinping’s All-Front Political Purge
By Jin Yan In the third decade of the 21st century, the global political order is undergoing deep...
Intelligence Warned of a German Attack; Stalin’s Profane Scrawl Came First, Then a Mental Collapse
By Fu Longshan From 1937 to 1938, the Soviet military entered what historians have described as a...