Here he faces not only an exhausting illness but also an awkward reality created by Soviet propaganda. As literary critic Wojciech Ligęza writes, Czuchnowski’s book: [...] undoubtedly breaks free from ...

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 ...

The book, as one Soviet critic described (in an attempt to ridicule it ... Prohibited from landing any job opportunity, he was then sentenced to 3.5 years in the gulag on the Arctic peninsula of ...

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 ...

Researchers from Israel and Russia found the final resting place of Pinchus Kahanovich, known as Der Nister, at a former Soviet gulag. (JTA) — Researchers from Israel and Russia discovered the ...

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 ...