Memoirs by women prisoners in Gulags are generally less well known than Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” and Varlam Shalamov’s “Kolyma Tales,” but they give readers a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illegal drugs are so rampant at Michigan's only prison for women that it is harder to stay clean while in custody than on the streets, according to five prisoners who described their struggles in ...

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 ...

A Russian American woman from Los Angeles is held ... rights advocates paint a bleak picture of a prison system that descended from the USSR’s gulag, documented by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in ...