The Gulag system, a grim hallmark of Stalin’s Soviet Union, was designed to repress and uproot millions, particularly ...

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 ...

Many were shot, but a much greater number were sent to the labour camps, the notorious Gulag complex scattered all across the Soviet Union. The paper may from this initial description seem to be ...

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 ...

The gulag kicked into high gear after World War ... which became one of the Soviet Union’s finest, says local Jewish activist Alexander Abramovich. “They knew they wouldn’t be deported ...

An extraordinary Soviet secret document has recently surfaced in Germany, shedding light on a figure buried deep within ...

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 ...

While gulags were part of the political reality of the Soviet Union almost ever since its inception, few were able to report on them. This little known book may be history’s first book-length ...

According to a Telegram social media post by Ksenia Basilashvili, an arts journalist in Russia, wall texts written by Gulag Museum staff detailing repressive acts under the Soviet dictator ...

There are close to 225,000 people employed by the State of California. Of those, 130,000 show up every work day at whatever ...

Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform After ... My second project explores the history of Baptist and Pentecostal communities in the Soviet Union. It draws on ...