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 ...

Zimbabwe faces economic collapse, political repression, and daily hardship. With hyperinflation and mass unemployment.

Between 1929 and 1953, over 18 million people passed through the Soviet Gulags. They were sentenced for "crimes" as small as ...

The Gulag was the government agency in charge of the vast Soviet network of prisons and labor camps that came into being ...

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 ...

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 at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

(There are also those in Trump’s orbit who are joking, one hopes, about whom they might throw in the hypothetical Gulag.) Whereas many of those branded most prominently with the scarlet R of ...

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 ...