Vladimir Lenin (Soviet propaganda poster). (NA) Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state.

The Gulag, established after the Bolsheviks took control of Russia in 1917, was the governmental body responsible for the extensive prison and labor camp network in the Soviet Union. It reached ...

Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin’s solution to both was the Gulag. We need to educate our citizens about communist Gulags the way we have educated them about Nazi death camps.

As Lenin observed in 1906, the dictatorship of the proletariat depended upon “authority untrammeled by any laws, absolutely unrestricted by any rules whatever and based directly on force.” Thus it is, ...

On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty. On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty. The masterpiece of our time. by. Gary Saul Morson. June 2024. Login. Current ... They all knew that, according to official ...

The Gulag, a concentration camp for criminals and dissidents, often in places as inhospitable as Siberia, became a symbol of Soviet brutality. (Image: By Vladimir OKC - Own work, https://commons ...

The Gulag Archipelago was first printed in Paris in December 1973.The book landed, as Ignat describes it, like a "bomb," exploding all remaining arguments for the Marxism that had destroyed ...

Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union Published on this day in 1973, “The Gulag Archipelago” drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ...

Specifically, the 47-year-old Navalny perished in a brutal Arctic concentration camp called “Polar Wolf.” (Circa 1920, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky first used the words “concentration ...