In 1924, Grigory Zinoviev's signature - or rather his forged signature - provoked a political crisis in Britain and turned the UK and the USSR into enemies. Zinoviev headed the worldwide communist ...

The man who didn't write the letter: Loyal servant of the Soviet Union Grigory Zinoviev was later executed by Joseph Stalin I’m not sure that anything can now help poor Rishi Sunak, but surely a ...

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles in exile, the troika between Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Stalin ...

The “October Surprise” is an infamous feature of US presidential elections: an accident or ambush so late in the campaign that the candidate on the receiving end has no time to recover. But 100 years ...

The grim axiom of Soviet trials is “They Always Confess.” Last week that axiom again proved sound in Leningrad where Joseph Stalin was having privately polished off a group of redoubtable Old ...

“WHAT a crowded, tumultuous and changeful House the crisis assembled!” said The Northern Echo on its front page the day after the Government suffered the heaviest defeat in Parliamentary history.

Just before the 1924 British general election a letter was published in the British press, purporting to have been written by a senior figure in the Soviet Communist Party: Grigory Zinoviev. The ...

Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the age of universal suffrage, it was one of the earliest, most notorious examples of “fake news” intended to swing an ...

Report Submitted to the Confederal Committee of the CNT by Delegate Angel Pestaña regarding his Conduct at the Second Congress of the Third International – Angel Pestaña Angel Pestaña’s official ...