Explore the purpose and reality of Stalin’s Gulag, the Soviet Union’s vast system of forced labor camps. In this video, I ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 constituent states of the Communist empire, Russia was always the pre-eminent ...

“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 ...

In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.

MOSCOW -- The book that made "Gulag" a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist ...

A film about one man's escape from a Russian Gulag will be the only British feature to compete for the Best Documentary prize at this year's Raindance Film Festival. Stuart Urban, the director of cult ...