Secrets from Stalin's critic - A former Nobel prize winner, and one of the Soviet Union's most famous dissident writers, has released a biography about his life opposing Stalin. RussiaToday caught up ...

Norilsk, Russia, the world's most depressing city, faces extreme cold, isolation, heavy pollution, and a tragic Gulag history ...

Zimbabwe faces economic collapse, political repression, and daily hardship. With hyperinflation and mass unemployment.

Jewish life pulsates today in Karaganda ... covered by bones of the dead.” The gulag kicked into high gear after World War II, as Moscow exploited its bottomless slave labor to rebuild a ...

Sitting in the lobby of a central London hotel, Vladimir Kara-Murza is in a valiant mood. It’s been six months since he was ...

“That’s the financial gulag,” one person told me, speaking anonymously because he has worked for ... “It’s that kind of quiet defiance of living your life.” “It could be a mistake. I guess we’ll never ...

6 years in the Gulag before she managed to return to Austria in the mid-1950s. Austrian Christina von Ditfurth can look back on a moving life. Born in 1943 as the child of an impoverished ...

The book is crafted in constant reference to and in emulation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead (the book in which Dostoevsky described life in a katorga, the precursor of the gulag, in ...

I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn wrote of life under Stalin. Solzhenitsyn received the 1970 ...