Set during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, Sergei Loznitsa’s film follows a naive young lawyer as he attempts to navigate ...

He says he wrote A Kingdom and a Village ‘out of nostalgia for pre-oligarch decrepitude, when the world looked at Moscow with ...

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army. This was done through three show trials ...

The scale of Secretary General Xi Jinping’s military purges is shocking. More than 100 senior leaders have been removed since ...