The Soviet Union was officially formed in 1922, a country, a political experiment, an ideal, a great scar across history. Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR was a ...
On the contrary, the Soviet papers are full of articles about its ‘direful consequences’ to the poorer elements in the villages. In the Izvestia of May 14, 1922, for instance, are several letters from ...
We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced ...