Behind the Iron Curtain, millions were imprisoned in Soviet gulags—forced labor camps that fueled Stalin’s rise and kept the USSR running. Torture, starvation, and death defined daily life. This is ...

Like the Soviet Gulag, the new Russian camp network is not temporary, and unless the Ukrainians can take back their territory, it will expand. The AP has obtained a Russian document, ...

Russian judge lets off accused with time served – but others who refused to plead guilty face years in penal colony ...

Eduard Kolga -During the first two years of Soviet occupation, Estonian born Canadian, Eduard Kolga, worked on his family farm in the rural farming community of Haapsalu to support his growing family… ...

University of Alaska history professor Tyler Kirk in Syktyvkar, a city in the Russia’s Komi Republic, in 2016. Kirk was doing research as a Fulbright Scholar for his recently published book ...

Podrabinek was exiled to Russia's Siberia in 1978 and then imprisoned in 1981 after writing a book on punitive psychiatry in the USSR. Despite pressure from the KGB security services, he refused ...

In December 1973, a Paris publishing house began printing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. The book, which exposed the horrors of Soviet communism, has been cited as one of the ...

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era ...

Rights advocates say that Russia under President Vladimir Putin has harnessed digital technology to track, censor and control the population, building what some call a “cyber gulag” — a dark ...