JERUSALEM (AP) — Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84. The ...

“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 ...

Now Anne Applebaum, in the first and last chapters of her powerful “Gulag: A History,” takes up the same question. My more elaborated answer, informed by her book, must be: If the Nazi record is worse ...

Can there be a duty to read a work of literature? Most people I’ve met who are at least aware of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago know that they should read the book. They ...

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 ...

A small band of explorers are cracking into the radioactive mines where the Kremlin once used slave labor to dig out its ...

[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, ...

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 ...

Behind the barbed wire of Stalin’s gulag, Andrei Tupolev designed the Tu-2 — a bomber that changed Soviet aviation forever.

NAUJASODES, Lithuania (Reuters Life!) - Young Europeans have been experiencing a taste of the brutal life in a Soviet prison camp in the Baltic state of Lithuania. Students from Italy, Poland and ...

Vladimir Putin hails stability among his greatest achievements as president of Russia. But stability in Russia exists in appearance only, supported by enormous oil revenue and massive propaganda from ...