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 ...

The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union. Millions of alleged traitors and enemies of the state were sent there, many to their deaths, in what historians ...

They were published in the West, some are available in translations, some still await an English version. While gulags were part of the political reality of the Soviet Union almost ever since its ...

“But here we are, sitting in a state museum to the history of the Gulag,” the optimistic director ... 1998-99 – pushed the crimes of the Soviet Union into the background of public life ...

The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union. Millions of alleged traitors and enemies of the state were sent there, many to their deaths, in what historians ...

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression. The closure was officially put down to ...

Researchers from Israel and Russia found the final resting place of Pinchus Kahanovich, known as Der Nister, at a former Soviet gulag ... s army invaded the Soviet Union. Most of the committee ...

Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society Steven A. Barnes Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system ...

Moscow authorities said 46,000 people visited in the first nine months of the year. The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union. Millions of alleged traitors and ...