Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...

7 On 10 September 1956 three young Lithuanian prisoners escaped from the Gulag. Taking advantage of lax guarding in the fields ... His lenient sentence, compared with the typical twenty-five year ...

A new study reveals that regions near Soviet GULAG camps are more prosperous today, thanks to the unintended legacy of ...

A rare survivor of the harshest Stalin-era labour camps has died aged 89 in Russia's far east. Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison ...

Most records relating to the gulag -- the brutal network of forced-labor camps for dissenters, criminals, and other perceived threats -- remain secret. But it’s likely that Stalin, spooked by ...

Several camps in the Perm region were transformed into the harshest camps for political ... The first fully documented history of the Gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin's watch, a regulated, ...

Dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn chronicled the harsh regime in Stalin's Gulag camps, and was persecuted for it. Many Russians were shocked to learn the truth in the late 1980s, when former Soviet ...

A study mapping the link between gulags and regional growth in Russia can teach us something about reviving our own left ...

This year also marks the 18th time the annual event has been hosted by a support organization for victims and survivors of the camps. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on Aug. 23, 1945, ordered ...

Three million people are accused of opposing Communism and sent to the gulag, a system of labour camps in Siberia. Around 750,000 people are summarily killed. In 1919 Stalin marries his second ...

Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six women – last survivors of the Gulag ... during the regime of Stalin.