On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...

Trofim Lysenko rose from relative obscurity to dominate Soviet agricultural science under Joseph Stalin. Rejecting ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

MOSCOW — Anna Akhmatova, the poet, died today, after a lifetime of controversy. According to Tass, the Soviet press agency, her age was 76.

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

Two years after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a remote Arctic prison, the verdict is finally in. Careful forensic investigation using samples of his tissue smuggled out of ...

Torture in Russian captivity is systematic. In a new documentary, The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit uncovers the torture of Ukrainian civilians held by Russian forces and traces ...

Poland is preparing a reparations claim against Russia for atrocities committed during Soviet dominance of the country, ...

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

A prominent critic of Stalins policies and Soviet- era political analyst and author Roy Medvedev died on Friday at the age of 100, Russias state media reported. Medvedev, a critic of Marxism practiced ...

A bitter attack on Stalin accusing him of responsibility for massacre and torture during his 30 years in power has been made by Mr Khrushchev, according to reports from reliable Communist sources.

Vorkuta was carved out of the Arctic by Gulag prisoners, where roughly 200,000 people died mining coal for Stalin’s regime. At its height, more than 100,000 residents lived there despite temperatures ...