According to Golfo Alexopoulos and new evidence, the essential purpose of the Gulags was violent human exploitation. The ...

The museum was one of the last institutions dedicated to documenting Soviet-era political repression in Russia.

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

The word 'gulag' has become shorthand for state terror. Behind the acronym lies one of history's most methodical and devastating systems of human punishment, one that shaped modern Russia and left sca ...

It has been eight decades since the start of the Great Terror that saw countless innocent victims across the Soviet Union executed or sent to the Gulag camps. It has ...

Vladimir Putin’s move to shut the Moscow museum and spotlight Nazi crimes revives debate on selective history. From Stalin’s ...