Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

A plaque in honor of the illustrious author of 'The Gulag Archipelago,' an immense fresco of the Soviet concentration camp ...

Stalin’s death had great meaning for all of Soviet society. It opened up the possibility of a succession struggle ... 7 On 10 September 1956 three young Lithuanian prisoners escaped from the Gulag.

Poles were among the first victims of the murderous system of the gulag. They were also among the first to report about it. Yet their testimonies hardly made the circles they deserved to. Here’s a ...

The Soviet Gulag prison system was set up in the 1920's by the ruling communist party. Soviet Gulags were forced labour camps. They held prisoners in harsh living conditions, where any treatment ...

In Karaganda, the painful memories of the infamous Soviet gulag here are part and parcel of the identity of the Jews who live in the city. KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan (JTA) — Liza Luchanskiy was born ...

Many were shot, but a much greater number were sent to the labour camps, the notorious Gulag complex scattered all across the Soviet Union. The paper may from this initial description seem to be ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

However his case, which made headlines around the world, drew international attention to Soviet human rights abuses and resulted in the temporary loosening of emigration restrictions – and the ...

In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag projects now lies largely forgotten. A rotting railway bridge in the Siberian outback A punishment ...

The international outcry meant he was only sentenced to 15 years in the gulag for having tried to ... was the main leader of a group of Soviet Jewish refuseniks who, in 1970, plotted to hijack ...