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 ...

A giant billboard for a war film and mock tank models stationed at the entrance leave no doubt about the mission of Russia's ...

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

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

Michel Krielaars’ illuminating account of the composers and performers who navigated the repressive Soviet system ...

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.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public ... because he referred to Joseph Stalin disrespectfully in a letter to an old ...

Drawing on extensive new material, Nathans’ insightful history of Soviet dissidents introduces remarkable individuals who courageously and selflessly tried to pursue civil rights from the 1960s ...