"Under Stalin, the Soviet state used mass executions, forced deportations, and the Gulag prison system as tools to control the behavior of its citizens. However

How did the Soviet Union control the behaviour of its people? How did the people themselves engage with the official rules and the threat of violence in their l

Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging

Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.