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, ...

“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...

When the doorbell to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Moscow apartment rang on February 12, 1974, his wife, Natalia, cracked open the door to see who was outside. Realizing it was the KGB, she immediately ...

The Kremlin is moving to eliminate the theme of Soviet repression under Joseph Stalin from the country’s museums as part 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 ...

We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced ...

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 ...

Did you know many of Roanoke’s beloved parks and natural landmarks exist thanks to one generous visionary? J.B. Fishburn, a banker turned philanthropist, helped shape the city by preserving Mill ...

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 ...