In it, Bolton compared Patel to Lavrentiy Beria, who was head of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the ...

not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

Stalin’s feared secret police chief. Beria, who had amassed enormous power, was seen as a threat by other Soviet leaders such as Georgy Malenkov, Khrushchev, Lazar Kaganovich, Vyacheslav Molotov ...

members of an elusive secret society were arrested by Joseph Stalin's secret police. Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was an essential part of ...

Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he ... His activities become known to the Tsarist secret police and he is forced to go underground. He joins the Bolshevik party and conducts guerrilla ...