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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Millions of people died in Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s gulag, but the 75th anniversary of the founding of one of the notorious forced-labor camps was cause for a celebration in Russia ...

In May 1945, Andrei Vlasov and the men of his Russian Liberation Army believed surrender to American forces might save them ...

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 ...

Explore the purpose and reality of Stalin’s Gulag, the Soviet Union’s vast system of forced labor camps. In this video, I share personal family stories that reveal what life was like for prisoners and ...

His "Gulag Archipelago" trilogy of the 1970s shocked readers by describing the savagery of the Soviet state under the dictator Josef Stalin. It helped erase lingering sympathy for the Soviet Union ...

“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 ...

MOSCOW, Oct 10 (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 ...

Russia approached the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression on October 30, amid a troubling landscape marked by a mix of solemn commemorations and unsettling governmental shifts. On ...

DOLINKA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Their only crime was to be German. An icy wind lashing against his face, Viktor Fast gazed at rows of crumbling barracks in the snows of central Kazakhstan where his ...

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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. L. L. Kerber, typed manuscript for Stalin's Aviation Gulag - A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era, edited by Von Hardesty (Washington, DC: ...