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 ...

A visitor to the Gulag History Museum looks at an exhibit near a photo of a Gulag prisoner in Moscow, Russia, on May 21, 2018. (Celestino Arce / NurPhoto via AFP) MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia plans to ...

Moscow residents react after Russian authorities ordered the closure of the city's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression. The closure was officially put ...

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 ...

When the doorbell to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Moscow apartment rang on February 12, 1974, his wife, Natalia, cracked open the door to see who was outside. Realizing it was the KGB, she immediately ...

COXSACKIE — The Vedder Research Library in Coxsackie held a talk Sunday by Adam Hradilek discussing the life of lawyer, Gulag prisoner and former Coxsackie resident Dr. Frantisek Polak. Hradilek was a ...

The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union - Copyright AFP/File VASILY MAXIMOV The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps ...

Annals of Communism, Yale's acclaimed series, adds another major documentary history to its list. More than 100 documents from the Russian archives are translated, and interspersed with Russian ...

For nearly half a century, October 30 has marked the annual remembrance day for victims of political repression in Russia. In the run-up to this year’s commemorations, however, librarians and ...

As Don mentioned, Amnesty International issued a report that was denounced by the Bush administration. It called the US-run prison camps at Guantanamo Bay `a Gulag for our time.' That word, `Gulag,' ...

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression. The closure was officially put down to alleged ...