The Soviet Union claimed to be building a society free from the criminal exploitation associated with capitalism, yet a ...

In a Moscow museum that once housed evidence of Stalin-era repression, serene family scenes flickered on a screen as a narrator hailed the tranquility of pre-World War II life in the Soviet Union. On ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A prisoner eats soup, left. No escaping the Gulag, right. The Gulags were a repressive system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union that cost the lives of millions of people. Photographer Barry ...

If there were a video like a 'Gulag Vlog,' it would surely hit 10 million views on YouTube.No one would be able to take their ...

Click on the slide show above to see images from the exhibitions and hear Joshua Rubenstein of Amnesty International explain the history of the Gulag. A country spanning nine time zones and two ...

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 ...

Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it the "mother of the Gulag" — the spot near the Arctic Circle where the Soviet Union built one of its first camps for political prisoners. Now the site ...