Poles were among the first victims of the murderous system of the gulag. They were also among the first to report about it. Yet their testimonies hardly made the circles they deserved to. Here’s a ...

By 1939, the Gulag had a disproportionately educated population: 1.8% of its prisoners had tertiary education compared to ...

When Burns returned to the United States to attend Northwestern, she realized very few people knew of the Gulag, the penal labor system in the Soviet Union, or what had happened there. After ...

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 ...

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 ...