The unsuccessful attempt to oust Kim Il Sung in 1956 triggered significant changes in North Korean politics and society. North Korea began to drift away from the Soviet patterns, slowly developing its own brand of "national Stalinism." North Korean relations with the Soviet...

Byline: Aaron Nathans and Matt Pommer The Capital Times Gov. Jim Doyle said today he will not reappoint the four University of Wisconsin regents he withdrew from nomination just after he was inaugurated on Monday. The four regents were late picks...

Russian Orthodox priests consecrated a wooden cross Wednesday at a site south of Moscow where firing squads executed thousands of people 70 years ago at the height of Josef Stalin's political purges.Created at a monastery that housed one of the first Soviet labor camps and...

Workers rebuilding a 19th century Moscow house unearthed the remains of nearly three dozen people apparently dating back nearly 70 years _ to the era of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's political purges, police said Thursday.Police also found a rusted pistol on the estate where the...

Examines to what extent, politically, economically and socially, the USSR was strengthened or weakened by the Great Terror of the 1930s? Argues that Stalin's totalitarianism strengthened the state. Debates if his leadership had a unifying effect on the nation.