The story of the Gulag first captured journalist Valérie Nivelon's interest when historian and academic Alain Blum told her about an old woman, a babushka, whom he met on a trip to Siberia. Sent to a ...

In a recent report, Amnesty International referred to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo as "the gulag of our time." The term--a Russian abbreviation for Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp ...

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 Gulag, the system of concentration camps through which the Soviet Union carried out murderous political repression, is something many Russians and Ukrainians would rather forget. But while the ...

To describe the Soviet penal system, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who survived eight years of Gulag incarceration, wrote a massive book titled ‘Archipelago Gulag’ after collecting hundreds of memoirs of ...

Vladimir Putin opens the wall of sorrow in Moscow in 2018. EPA Army soldiers digging mass graves to try and show that the state wasn’t responsible for the dead. A historian who vehemently disagrees ...

In partnership with the French National Centre for Scientific Research, RFI is helping to create the first European sound archive devoted to the experiences of people sent to the Soviet Gulag camps.