To understand the echoes, it was necessary to recall the originals. On trial in Moscow in 1938 Genrikh Yagoda, hard-boiled head of the OGPU, said: “Citizen judges, I want to tell [you] how a man ...

Trotsky, Litvinov [Maxim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Commissar, 1930-39], Kamenev, Zinoviev, Yagoda [Genrikh Yagoda, appointed by Stalin head of security police,executed 1938], Kaganovich [the only ...

Ben Yagoda Ben Yagoda is a former professor of English and journalism at the University of Delaware. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of 12 books including You Need to Read This: The Death of ...

The 2025 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held from 26 February-1 March in Debrecen, Hungary. It was the last major figure skating event of the season for junior skaters, ending a busy ...