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Legal experts pounced President Donald Trump’s proposal of sending U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to international prisons ...
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone ...
I disappeared for three weeks to visit Soviet Jewish refuseniks during Passover. Forty years later, the lessons I learned ...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among the greatest Russian writers, will be long read and remembered, but not as a social and ...
Appalling by any measure, the conflict is but the latest bloodstained trauma to immerse Ukraine. Much of her historic ...
After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...
When it came to defeating communism one of the greatest (and cheapest) tools in America's arsenal, was not nukes or spy ...
In 1997, the late British author, graphic designer and design historian David King published a book titled “The Commissar ...
Few of the millions of gulag prisoners who returned from the penal colony spoke ... Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper The Soviet Union might seem the last place that ...
As the sky began to darken, Vladyslav Rudenko slid a pair of underwear into his hoodie and pretended to go for a walk. The 16 ...
I still remember, from when I was a politically precocious teen in the 1970s, my dog-eared paperback copy of one of that fraught decade’s defining books: The Gulag Archipelago by the Soviet Nobel ...