Two books delve into the ordeal of the prison camps known as the gulag in the Soviet Union. Barenberg offers an overview of the Soviet penal system, masterminded by Stalin, between 1930 and 1960, when ...

Jews, women and members of ethnic minorities were all ... Healey’s account is structured around the biographies of both free professionals and prisoners. The free professionals reached Gulag by ...

Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

Historians estimate the total number of Gulag prisoners at 20 million, of whom about 2 million did not survive their incarceration. But after they closed down, in addition to the tragic legacy ...

A special chapter is devoted to the work in the camp morgues: inexplicably, despite a blatant disrespect for the dead, who were often buried unclothed and in mass graves, the gulag administration ...