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 ...

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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 ...

The analysis of 63 human bone fragments uncovered in Poland's Maszycka Cave just revealed a grisly truth about the ...

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 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 ...

I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn wrote of life under Stalin. Solzhenitsyn received the 1970 ...

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

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