Photographs and thousands of documents casting light on the fate of Czechoslovak citizens imprisoned in the gulag have been published online, with many more to follow. As invading German tanks ...

Many of the former barracks lie abandoned. A terrifying sight... Vostochny (East) uranium camp Gulag History Museum More photos and videos from the expeditions are available on the museum website.

In Fall 2010, the Havighurst Center chose to explore the history of the Gulag as its semester-long focus. In addition to hosting speakers on the subject for the Havighurst Colloquia Series, the Center ...

Following Voronyanskaya's death, Solzhenitsyn sent out a signal through a network of "invisible allies" to pull the trigger on publishing The Gulag Archipelago. Rolls of film containing photos of ...

Images: AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite ... Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” (1973) will be remembered long after many celebrated 20th-century works are forgotten.

In 2014, it was shut down again. Russian ex-prisoners and historians published memoirs and histories of the Gulag, held conferences, created exhibitions, made documentaries. Then, over the past ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and ...

Two books delve into the ordeal of the prison camps known as the gulag in the Soviet Union. Barenberg offers an overview of the Soviet penal system, masterminded by Stalin, between 1930 and 1960, when ...