The 1934 murder of Sergei Kirov shook the Soviet Union and became one of its greatest historical mysteries. Was it a lone gunman, or did Stalin orchestrate the killing to justify his purges? This ...

When Sergei Kirov, Stalin’s closest political ally, was assassinated in 1934, it set off one of the deadliest crackdowns in Soviet history. What followed wasn’t just an investigation—it was ...

An ominous counterpoint was the murder of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov in December 1934, followed by a wave of arrests by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.

Since Kirov was assassinated not by an elderly Tsarist but by a youthful Communist, the expiation of his death by exile to Siberia of the sort of Russians who were being bundled off last week has ...

Except for the confession of Assassin Nikolaev who was later shot, the confessions last week were by far the most important to the Kirov case. Over 100 Russians had been shot for confessing less ...

Sergei Mandelstam, who was executed for alleged complicity in the assassination of the Soviet leader Sergei M. Kirov, was a member of the noted Russian Jewish family of Mandelstam, it has been ...

On the monster collective farm near Saratov peasants decided to do something about the assassination of Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10 et seq.). Slapping ...

Russian agricultural machinery companies, following a sharp drop in sales, have started to switch to a shorter working week, ...

Popular hypothesis: “Dear Friend Sergei” Kirov, mentioned in Russia before his death with increasing frequency as an eventual successor to Stalin, was shot by order of the careful Dictator who ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 6, 1934 (UP) -- Sergei Kirov, veteran and well-loved Bolshevik leader, was given a hero's funeral today as the bullet-torn bodies of 66 government enemies, including a woman, attested ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 6, 1934 (UP) -- Sergei Kirov, veteran and well-loved Bolshevik leader, was given a hero's funeral today as the bullet-torn bodies of 66 government enemies, including a woman, attested ...