The first fully documented history of the Gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin's watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor-unprecedented in scope-gradually arose out of the chaos of ...

The first camps appeared in Russia after the Revolution of 1917 ... as most of the Gulag documents were classified until the 1980s. Contemporary Russian writers keep exploring the topic, too.

Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it the "mother of the Gulag" — the spot near the ... in a Tsarist-era jail there after the Russian revolution. The regime was not harsh at first ...

The Gulag, established after the Bolsheviks took ... In 1890, she crossed paths with Anton Chekhov, a Russian playwright who was investigating prison reform and happened to be visiting Sakhalin.

where sick gulag prisoners were sent to die. When the Solovetsky Islands were seized by the Bolsheviks after the 1917 Russian Revolution, its monks became prisoners. They were joined by thousands of ...

Russian Revolution, October 1917 ... and those that weren't ended up in the gulag in the 1930s." I think it's very important to hold on to the idea that people shouldn't tolerate authoritarian ...

After the revolution, Russian emigres scattered across the world ... From Detroit to the Gulag Soviet citizens who had travelled abroad were a particular target for Stalin's secret police.

But themes of witness and martyrdom also run through the gulag literature ... of the French Revolution and Stalinism. But it endured and will endure." Msgr. Kovalevsky, the Russian Bishops ...

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 ...

After the revolution, Russian emigres scattered across the world ... From Detroit to the Gulag Soviet citizens who had travelled abroad were a particular target for Stalin's secret police.