Explore the purpose and reality of Stalin’s Gulag, the Soviet Union’s vast system of forced labor camps. In this video, I ...

“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 ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

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 ...

[Ashaya Basnyat/The Daily Pennsylvanian] 'Washington Post' columnist Anne Applebaum read excerpts from her book at Kelly Writers House. While the Holocaust still garners much attention worldwide, ...

Examining Russia's forced relocation of Ukrainians to Siberia, drawing parallels to Soviet-era Gulags and demographic ...

AROUND A YEAR ago I received a letter from my alma mater: the Soviet gulag, where I spent nine years after being convicted of anti-Soviet activity, high treason and espionage, and from which I ...