"It's based on a true story." Or "It's truth, but stranger than fiction." Or even: "You couldn't make it up." When Peter Weir gets sent film scripts these days, most of them advertise themselves ...

Their correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin’s Gulag, unmediated and uncensored. Wisely, Figes lets his characters speak for themselves.

But in “real life,” these rough-looking men were from nice central European homes, as the presence of the girl reminds them. Rape would have been out of character. Advertisement ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and ...

Real-life Holocaust survivor: Cecilia Kovachova - who inspired the main character in new novel Cilka's Journey - is pictured with her husband Ivan after their release from a Soviet gulag ...

"Most people," Milan Kundera wrote in "The Joke," "deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redress (of deeds, mistakes ...

The agenda-driven folks at Amnesty International were correct: Cuba is a gulag for our times. They just missed on the location. The gulag is all of Cuba except Guantanamo.

Dan Healey's latest book: Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. In the first place, we need to be careful when we talk about what it meant to be a homosexual in the Gulag.