“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How one of the youngest political inmates of the Soviet Union became a leading conductor of Ukrainian choirs in Czechoslovakia — and why even the secret police couldn’t silence him after his release.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 its ...

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 ...

Russian kids had to wait until their grandkids were no longer kids before either of them could enjoy a Happy Meal - or any other kind of meal that wasn’t approved by the Soviet authorities - during ...