Former political prisoners explain the different ways the dissident movement within the Soviet bloc (1922–1991) took shape.

Sergei Loznitsa's adaptation of the novel by Soviet writer Georgy Demidov won the François Chalais Prize The post Janus Films ...

Frozen wastelands, brutal forced labor, and millions of prisoners—inside the Soviet Gulags, survival was a daily battle! ‘We will find you’: Massachusetts attorney and US citizen told to ...

Drawing from archival collections in the Russian North and Far East, as well as on doctors’ memoirs, Healey describes the drama of being a doctor in the Soviet gulag’s labor camps in the 1920s through ...

On October 13, 1942, a barge containing prisoners en route to a Soviet labor camp in the remote Arctic city of Norilsk took on water along the Yenisei River. Different accounts suggest it was the ...

From the June 2023 issue: The counteroffensive Like the Soviet Gulag, the new Russian camp network is not temporary, and unless the Ukrainians can take back their territory, it will expand.

Close to 600,000 Japanese soldiers are believed to have been held in Soviet labor camps in the wake of Japan's defeat in the war. They were interned for up to 11 years, with about 55,000 dying as a ...

But in the 1930s-vintage Soviet Union, things were a little different. Of course, pop culture's long made a trope of Soviet gulags and work camps.