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 ...

On Solzhenitsyn's struggle to publish Gulag Archipelago in the waning days of the USSR Suddenly, on 8 September, a “letter by phone” to us in America from senior editor Dima Borisov. The editorial ...

It is something we give people even without knowing. When you buy something at the nearest shop, you trust that the price is not hiked, the product is okay, and the seller will let you leave with it.

Although more than three decades have now passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed, samizdat manuscripts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago first began circulating around ...

) is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material ...

Gulag guards, administrators, even senior officers of the secret police, could also be arrested and find themselves sentenced to camps. Not every "poisonous weed" remained poisonous, in other ...

Although more than three decades have passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed samizdat versions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago began circulating in what used to be ...

Excerpt from the introduction to the newly-abridged Russian version of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Sanya, as the boy was called at home, read a great deal and, strange to say, at ...

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The perfect romantic getaway for a night in Liepaja, Latvia: a night in a KGB gulag! I've packed some light reading, a toilet roll (just in case), a towel and an electric toothbrush. My guide and ...