Explore the purpose and reality of Stalin’s Gulag, the Soviet Union’s vast system of forced labor camps. In this video, I ...
“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...
In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.
Walter Ciszek, S.J., arrives at America House on West 56th Street in New York City after his release by the Soviet Union in 1963. (Photo courtesy of America Media) The death yesterday in a Russian ...
Unidentified photographer, “Ruth Gruber, Alaska” (1941–43) (all images courtesy International Center of Photography unless indicated otherwise) Ruth Gruber, “Woman with tattooed face and hands, a form ...