For nearly half a century, October 30 has marked the annual remembrance day for victims of political repression in Russia. In ...

“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...

What are Soviet Gulags? What happened in Gulags? And what did they accomplish? The word "Gulag" is actually an acronym of its ...

How one of the youngest political inmates of the Soviet Union became a leading conductor of Ukrainian choirs in Czechoslovakia — and why even the secret police couldn’t silence him after his release.

We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...

Yuz Aleshkovsky, one of the Soviet Union's best-known dissident writers, has died in the United States at the age of 92. Aleshkovsky's son, Aleksei Aleshkovsky, said on March 21 that his father had ...

Walter Ciszek, S.J., arrives at America House on West 56th Street in New York City after his release by the Soviet Union in 1963. (Photo courtesy of America Media) The death yesterday in a Russian ...

[Ashaya Basnyat/The Daily Pennsylvanian] 'Washington Post' columnist Anne Applebaum read excerpts from her book at Kelly Writers House. While the Holocaust still garners much attention worldwide, ...

Public distrust of unchecked centralized government is a very good thing. Consider the legacy of communism, a system that uses unbridled centralized state power in order to maintain its grip. The more ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians who leave the country and support Ukraine should be sent to a far eastern region known for its Stalin-era Gulag prison camps if they ever return home, according to the ...