"The Death of Stalin" (2017), Armando Iannucci’s second feature film, portrays the struggle for power following Stalin’s death over control of the USSR between Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), ...

In any case, Beria, feared by his colleagues, was ousted and executed in a bizarre plot comically depicted in the movie “The Death of Stalin.” It took a few years, but Nikita Khrushchev ...

When he learns that Stalin has taken ill, Khrushchev hastily pulls a jacket and pants over his pajamas and rushes to his side, where Beria (Simon Russell Beale, brilliant), the head of the secret ...

Which brings us back to The Death of Stalin. Lavrenti Beria, the fearsome head of the Soviet secret police, is played with terrifying zeal by Simon Russell Beale.

The Death of Stalin is a blacker-than-black comedy about the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how they jockey for power after the demise of Joseph ...

In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage. As a result, when ...

Perhaps the most haunting figure of all was Nikolai Yezhov, Beria's predecessor as head of the NKVD, Stalin's secret police. Before he became the head of the NKVD, Montefiore writes, "Yezhov was ...

Next to Stalin the most powerful man in Soviet Russia for the past two years has been Nikolai Yezhov, Commissar for Internal Affairs since September 1936. Comrade Yezhov is the man who in 1937 put ...