How many died? There is no accurate answer. Applebaum “reluctantly” gives a figure of 2,749,163, although it is probably an ...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations ...

In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a truck that had "arrived on an overnight ferry from Copenhagen", said Luke ...

Next week we’ll post the final Great Books podcast of 2017 ... by Mark Twain; and The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. We’ll be back in 2018 with more episodes The investigation ...