Author Elvira Bary examines the Gulag, the Soviet network of corrective labor camps that used millions of prisoners for ...

Communism profoundly shaped the history of the 20th century and left a legacy that continues to be the subject of intense debate. This video examines the human cost of some of the major communist ...

Two books delve into the ordeal of the prison camps known as the gulag in the Soviet Union. Barenberg offers an overview of the Soviet penal system, masterminded by Stalin, between 1930 and 1960, when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Kara-Murza sits down with The Independent in London to recall his Siberian prison ordeal (Liam James/The Independent) The ...

On Russia’s continuing inability to confront its Stalinist past. Had he ever really left? Perhaps the question is not posed correctly, for the image of Stalin, while synonymous with cruelty beyond ...