“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 ...

The museum was one of the last institutions dedicated to documenting Soviet-era political repression in Russia.

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, ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

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 ...

Public distrust of unchecked centralized government is a very good thing. Consider the legacy of communism, a system that uses unbridled centralized state power in order to maintain its grip. The more ...

Walter Ciszek, S.J., arrives at America House on West 56th Street in New York City after his release by the Soviet Union in 1963. (Photo courtesy of America Media) The death yesterday in a Russian ...

Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union entered a period known as the Khrushchev Thaw, marked by limited political and cultural liberalization. The shift allowed writers, ...

Podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan laid out his nightmare vision of a “Soviet Union-style gulag” situation in the United States where people are tried and convicted for refusing to use people’s ...