BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Karoly Miklosi was heading to his job at a print shop in February 1945 when the Soviets nabbed him for slave labor. They took the 18-year-old first to Romania, then to what is ...
Quote of the Day by Varlam Shalamov suggests friendship is not born in need. True bonds already exist before life's darkest ...
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The Soviet gulag wasn't a prison - it was a slow death sentence
Communism profoundly shaped the history of the 20th century and left a legacy that continues to be the subject of intense debate. This video examines the human cost of some of the major communist ...
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Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus died in a Soviet labor camp — new exhibition in Kyiv honors his life
While the Soviet authorities promoted their vision of ideological "universalism" — a homogenized identity that suppressed national cultures — dissenting voices were silenced through arrests, ...
Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...
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 ...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian literary giant who shook the foundations of the Soviet state with his works exposing the horrors of the Communist regime, died Sunday night at his home outside ...
Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday at his home near Moscow, but declined further comment. Through unflinching accounts of the years he spent in the Soviet gulag, ...
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