In the forests of southern Siberia, workers are still working as serfs in the Gulag, paying off North Korea's $3.8 billion Cold War debt. Kim Sung Chol came to work at a North Korean Logging Camp in ...

Kara-Murzawas freed last August in the biggest exchange of prisoners since the Cold War. He is one of the surviving ... months since his release from the gulag where he thought he would die.

No trace of its crew and passengers, including a pregnant mother and her young son, has ever been found Francine Uenuma Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian ...

with a particular emphasis on the social and cultural history of post-war Russia and Ukraine. My first book explored popular responses to the reforms of the Khrushchev era, in particular the massive ...