I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn wrote of life under Stalin. Solzhenitsyn received the 1970 ...

WHEN SOLZHENITSYN WROTE his great three-volume classic, The Gulag Archipelago, it had a huge impact, particularly in France. There, since the Second World war, a great part of the reading classes had ...

The analysis of 63 human bone fragments uncovered in Poland's Maszycka Cave just revealed a grisly truth about the ...

Zimbabwe faces economic collapse, political repression, and daily hardship. With hyperinflation and mass unemployment.

The Gulag was the government agency in charge of the vast Soviet network of prisons and labor camps that came into being ...

Musicians in the Time of Stalin by Michel Krielaars emphasises the challenges artists faces during the Soviet era.

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Audiences at this summer’s Copenhagen Summer Festival were treated to a masterful performance of Stanislav Lyudkevich’s ...

“For nearly 33 months, they have suffered inhumane conditions in Russian prisons, which operate under the worst tenets of Soviet gulags,” he added. “They have been waiting for the promised priority ...

Mr. Nobody Against Putin” about the Putin-dictated shift in Russia’s schools was made possible by a young Russian ...