In the USSR during Stalin’s regime, show trials were a tool of political repression. The trials were orchestrated events that ...

Communist leaders at the 20th Party Congress had already heard First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev bluntly charge that Stalin “murdered” Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and some 5,000 other ...

The New York Times recently asked, “Is Mikhail Baryshnikov the last of the highbrow superstars?” In a year when the world’s most famous dancer is celebrating not only the 50th anniversary of ...

they must target the staff linked to key participants in that plot (such as the historical figure of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a high-ranking officer who was accused of treason for conniving with ...

Defeat in World War I generated innovations in mechanized warfare by Soviet theorists like General Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the 1930s. Poor combat performance in Chechnya in the 1990s, and Georgia ...

Our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings pick for 2019 is Goldsmith Street in Norwich, designed by architecture studio Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley. In the competition's 27-year ...

Why did Stalin target the inoffensive Shostakovich? Stalin had previously purged most of the officer corps, including Shostakovich’s friend and patron Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky. No wonder the ...

Before Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle had met one other Soviet marshal—Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Red Army’s brilliant Chief of Staff and No. 1 mechanizer, who was liquidated in the 1937 ...

While Shostakovich was at work on the Fifth, one of his highest-ranking supporters, the Soviet general Mikhail Tukhachevsky, had been executed. Not only the composer’s career but also ...