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 story of a Soviet concentration camp, ...

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 ...

In a chilling example of Russia’s political repression, Yury Dmitriev has been sent to solitary confinement, known as SHIZO, ...

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 ...

The Museum of Moscow removed a planned section on Soviet repressions from its “History of Moscow ... The curators had reportedly enlisted staff from the Gulag History Museum to draft labels for the ...