Musicians in the Time of Stalin by Michel Krielaars emphasises the challenges artists faces during the Soviet era.

Many of his compatriots in the fight against Putin’s authoritarian regime did not survive. Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Kara-Murza’s mentor and godfather to his youngest daughter, was the first to ...

After all, those books were written by the last-leggers of the Gulag, who survived, were released, survived to rehabilitation ...

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 ...

The analysis of 63 human bone fragments uncovered in Poland's Maszycka Cave just revealed a grisly truth about the ...

Trump’s actions and declaration of imperialist ambitions are driven mostly by his ‘impulse towards authoritarianism,’ says ...

As the debate over U.S. policy toward Ukraine continues, positions taken by the Trump Administration have sparked renewed discussion about America's role in the conflict. Trump's assertion that he ...

I've been unpersoned. Here, in the United States of America. The censor? OpenAI, the huge tech company run by Sam Altman, ...

For centuries, from Louis Pasteur to Steve Jobs, entrepreneurs have helped shape the world. With Donald Trump back in the ...

She was born in a Soviet forced labor camp (gulag) in the interior of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union) in a town called Kharitonovo, near the Arctic Circle. Adam was a ...

The ‘mainland’ (meaning the Soviet Union outside the Gulag) is a foreign country, where things are done differently; the Gulag retains the decimal system for counting days, long after the rest of the ...