Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

For example, Pringle identifies the NKVD officer Lev Shwartzman as “head ... Pringle's statement that “there was one option still open to any Soviet citizen. Vavilov could appeal to the ...

The Venona Project was the code name used for U.S. Signal Intelligence efforts to collect and to decrypt Soviet NKVD and GRU messages in the 1940s. Sometimes called Arlington Hall from the name of ...