Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Refusenik was one of the leaders of Operation Wedding, a failed attempt to hijack an empty civilian plane to escape Soviet ...

Authorities in Moscow once exonerated people who were tortured, imprisoned, and killed during the Soviet era. The current president wants to undo that.

That era saw a number of prominent prisoner exchanges, including a swap that freed the Jewish Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who was a face of the movement to free Soviet Jewry and, over the ...

Eduard Kuznetsov, Prisoner of Zion, journalist, writer and man of struggle, passed away at the age of 85. Kuznetsov was a symbol of the struggle to liberate Soviet Jews and enable their ...

Eduard Kuznetsov, a prominent Soviet-Israeli prisoner of Zion, dissident and journalist, died in Israel today at the age of 86. Kuznetsov was one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet Jewish ...