A Soviet prison camp may not sound like the ideal place for a good time. Even less so in a country that was occupied by the Red Army for half a century. Yet Grutas Park, a quirky theme park dotted ...

Mahatma Gandhi is the latest historical figure to rate a theme park created in his image. The Gandhi for Tomorrow theme park is to be built on 10 acres near an ashram he established and inhabited for ...

Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for 28 years, overseeing a personality cult and a brutal regime. But a Moscow shawarma stand named after him lasted just one day. After complaints from angry local ...

Last weekend’s program at the Boston Symphony used music to tell a powerful story of art, politics and fear.The concert opened with an excerpt from the Shostakovich opera "LadyMacbeth of the Mtsensk ...