During WWII the NKVD changed its name briefly to NKGB ... A little boy who became famous throughout the Soviet Union and eventually the center of a cult of denunciation. Pavlik symbolized the ...

The Senate should reject this nomination 100-0.” 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 ...

The Soviet Union drowned in a surge of optimism ... In the 1930s it was called the NKVD, and it killed as many as 1.2 million people. Often the NKVD’s victims were shot and buried on-site.

Blunt became a communist in the early 1930s and was recruited by the NKVD (later KGB), the Soviet ... Burgess and Maclean defected to the Soviet Union, where they spent the rest of their lives.

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD ... ruler of the Soviet Union. His brutality was unremitting.

and in 1927 Lithuania was an independent country and not a part of the Soviet Union. In chapter 27, more serious problems arise. This chapter, about the NKVD investigation and Vavilov's trial ...