As the Moscow institution is temporarily closed and its director, Roman Romanov, is dismissed, fears grow that Russia’s past ...

But the enormous scope of the operation will almost certainly include other victims of Soviet “justice” during the reign of the dictator Joseph Stalin ... to death in the Gulag.

Most records relating to the gulag -- the brutal network of forced-labor camps for dissenters, criminals, and other perceived threats -- remain secret. But it’s likely that Stalin, spooked by ...

He died in the Gulag in 1950. Yitzhak Nusinov died in ... while Mikhoels was killed in what may have been an assassination ordered by Joseph Stalin. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) On November 20 ...

having been imprisoned in the horrendous conditions of the Soviet gulag detention system. Zhdanov, who was a close friend of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, has now seemingly been honoured in ...

Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, who was regarded as one of the ... encouraged citizens to spy on each other and sent millions of people to Gulags (prison camps) to perform forced labor ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

According to Far Out Magazine, after Joseph Stalin’s death, the prisoners in the gulags staged an uprising and by 1956 they were closed. However, the gulags claimed the lives of nearly 17,000 ...