Women prisoners find a moment to rest in their shack in the Vorkutlag. Due to Stalin's purges, numerous camps struggled to handle the large influx of inmates. The Vorkuta Gulag system consisted of ...

The gulag? Isn’t that a relic of Soviet communism ... The sewing is a reference to the day labor of Russian women prisoners. In her letter on prison conditions, “Nadya” wrote, “My brigade ...

Life went on – thousands of babies were born to women prisoners, and there were even Gulag marriages – but survival was often a matter of ruthless cunning. As one ex-prisoner told me ...

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 ...

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 ...