In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag projects now lies largely forgotten. A rotting railway bridge in the Siberian outback A punishment ...

Originally built on a gulag where prisoners were sent to collect nickel and other resources from the mines, Norilsk in Russia is the northern-most city in the world and also one of ‘the most ...

In the 1930s, in the Gulag, the term "last-leggers" was initially used to refer to those who did not receive parcels from the outside. Surviving on the "standard" ration while working in a mine, ...

In Fall 2010, the Havighurst Center chose to explore the history of the Gulag as its semester-long focus. In addition to hosting speakers on the subject for the Havighurst Colloquia Series, the Center ...

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 ...