NKVD refers to the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union, which was in place from 1934 to 1946. Beria was appointed by former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin as deputy ...

Beria, who had amassed enormous power ... KHRUSHCHEV’S CONSOLIDATION of power within the Soviet Union reached its zenith in 1956 with his famous “Secret Speech” at the 20th Congress of ...

Beria's own joy temporarily dissipated when ... responded with a joke that challenged the role of scientists in the Soviet Union. The point of Nedelin's story was clear to Sakharov.

In April 1954, Soviet spies Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, masquerading as Canberra diplomats, defected to Australia. This Cold ...

Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in ... firmly entrench himself in the role of indisputable ruler of the Soviet Union. His brutality was unremitting. In the late twenties, when ...

After a brief factional battle within the Politburo, Lavrenti Beria, the head of Stalin ... discontent of the working class within the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe. In June 1953, workers ...