Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current ...

A rare survivor of the harshest Stalin-era labour camps has died aged 89 in Russia's far east. Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison ...

Secrets from Stalin's critic - A former Nobel prize winner ... and it was one of the first films made on Russian soil to clearly depict life in the infamous gulags (prison labor camps) of Siberia. The ...

Most records relating to the gulag -- the brutal network of forced-labor camps for dissenters, criminals, and other perceived threats -- remain secret. But it’s likely that Stalin, spooked by ...

Moscow's Gulag History Museum has closed, and, throughout Russia, statues of Stalin are multiplying as the Kremlin seeks to ...

Dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn chronicled the harsh regime in Stalin's Gulag camps, and was persecuted for it. Many Russians were shocked to learn the truth in the late 1980s, when former Soviet ...

The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union. Millions of alleged traitors and enemies ...

Polls showed rising popularity for Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and growing ignorance of his crimes, including the creation of the Gulag, a vast network of prison camps in which two million people ...

Millions of Soviet citizens who found themselves displaced after World War II confronted a second nightmare when the fighting ...

The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union ... While occasionally condemning the vast repression under Joseph Stalin in the 1930s, Putin more often hails ...

Columnist Cassie Craven writes, “Justice Jackson’s Imaginary Equal Protection Clause theory reimagines that the law must ...