Quote of the Day by Varlam Shalamov suggests friendship is not born in need. True bonds already exist before life's darkest ...

The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest forced labor systems in history, imprisoning millions of people across thousands of ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...

From elite universities to Soviet handlers, the Cambridge Five helped Stalin penetrate Britain’s security and decision-making core.

In 1939, Julius Margolin was rounded up with thousands of other Poles, crammed into boxcars and sent to the Soviet gulag. (Hard-labor convicts in Siberia, Russia / GL Archive /Alamy) Margolin’s time ...

NAUJASODES, Lithuania (Reuters Life!) - Young Europeans have been experiencing a taste of the brutal life in a Soviet prison camp in the Baltic state of Lithuania. Students from Italy, Poland and ...

Communism profoundly shaped the history of the 20th century and left a legacy that continues to be the subject of intense ...

Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday at his home near Moscow, but declined further comment. Through unflinching accounts of the years he spent in the Soviet gulag, ...

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 ...

George Zoltan Bien, 76, an Arlington resident who survived imprisonment in the Soviet gulag after World War II and was forced to flee his native Hungary after the uprising against Soviet occupation in ...

Yale University is offering a course this fall that likens the US prison system to the Soviet Gulag, with one of the professors leading the course describing America as home to “one of the most brutal ...