Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

The Great Purge was more than a political campaign—it was a tragedy that reshaped the Soviet Union and left millions dead or imprisoned. This video dives into the causes, methods, and impact of Stalin ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...

Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...

A new study reveals that regions near Soviet GULAG camps are more prosperous today, thanks to the unintended legacy of ...

Because of Central Asia’s isolation from the world during the Soviet era, these artists remain little studied outside the ...

Soviet Russia opened up in 1988, but its freedom proved fleeting. We should guard ours vigilantly.

White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.

Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, denouncing the rule of ...