The gulag, meanwhile, made stars of a few who, like Petkevich, had never performed before. Petkevich fled Leningrad in 1937 after her parents were arrested and wound up in the Central Asian city ...

RIR has compiled a list of significant works of art, music and literature that were created by cultural figures imprisoned in Soviet labor camps. Young Alexander Solzhenitsyn at the Ryazan-pristan ...

The new gulag map is a mock-up of Hijacked as originally seen in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, recreating a "truncated" version of the layout with plywood instead of multi-billion-dollar yacht parts.

A reshuffling at the helm of the Gulag Museum in Moscow has revealed how the Kremlin is creating a new ideologically loyal cadre of cultural managers, some of whom are even receiving military ...

The main point of “the Gulag” concept is that ultimately Russians never need barbwire to keep them in check. ... Russia Between Art and Politics,” you write about how Russians like to suffer.

Russian officials have shut down a regional museum of Gulag history in a bid to whitewash the crimes of the Soviet secret police, says its founder, Nikolay Arakcheev. “We are being compelled to ...

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 ...