On Aug. 30, 1918, Fanny Kaplan, a 28-year-old member of Russia’s Socialist Revolutionary Party, brandished a pistol at that day’s guest to the Mikhelson factory in Moscow. As its workforce gathered to ...

"In April 1918, a telegram came from Moscow about the speeches of anarchists. At this time, the Vologda anarchists became insolent. They seized the building of the hotel "Europa", furnished it with ...

WASHINGTON — In November 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Union’s secret police known as the Cheka, had a plan. Four years earlier, the Bolsheviks had expelled the Romanov dynasty and ...

[First fragment. Anecdote used in Von der Demokratie zur Staatssklaverei (1921), reply to Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism (Anti-Kautsky). This story is corroborated in "Dear Comrades: Menshevik ...

Before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig began the trial of 16 Communists, alleged to be members of the German Cheka,* charged with fomenting revolution in Germany. The first witness called was an ...

The remnants and found objects - shoes, hats, spare clothes tsarist army cadet uniform, medals and icons - are waiting to be examined by specialists and restorers. Maybe then they will be moved to ...

The Cheka. The GPU. The NKVD. The MGB. The KGB. And the FSB. The Kremlin's secret police have gone by many names. And this week, they had a birthday. Throughout the year, Vladimir Putin's regime ...

A monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of the All-Russian Emergency Commission, abbreviated as VChK and commonly known as Cheka, was installed on the territory of the headquarters of the Russian ...

Russia’s leader has restored the role its intelligence agencies had in the Soviet era — keep citizens in check and destabilize foreign adversaries. By John Sipher Mr. Sipher, a former chief of station ...

Bewteen 76 thousand and 126 thousand Euros need for identification. Moscow (AsiaNews) - There is no money to identify the remains of victims of "bolshevik terror", among which there may be some ...