The name “Gulag” was made famous by Soviet dissident and writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the early-to-mid 1970s when his magisterial three-volume work, The Gulag Archipelago, appeared first ...

Poles were among the first victims of the murderous system of the gulag. They were also among the first to report about it. Yet their testimonies hardly made the circles they deserved to. Here’s a ...

When Nikita Khrushchev finally acknowledged "grave abuse" in his famous 1956 speech, one Politburo member argued against too quickly rehabilitating those who suffered in the Gulag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a gulag survivor and the author of The Gulag Archipelago, the world’s most famous literary denunciation of Soviet labor camps. The Gulag Archipelago is the reason ...

Re "American gulag," Current, Feb. 26 The revelations about Guantanamo Bay should sicken any American regardless of political affiliation.

When Amnesty International called the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "a gulag of our time," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush both said that the term "gulag" was inappropriate.

Under Stalin, people could be sent to the Gulag for any one of several specific reasons, as the experiences of Vera, Antanas, Klara, Silva, Iaroslav, Andrej, Elena and Iosas testify. Marta Craveri ...

Researchers from Israel and Russia discovered the grave of an influential Jewish writer and resistance fighter who perished in communist purges at a former Soviet camp for political prisoners.

Trump mouthpiece’s shocking response to whether Americans can be sent to gulags. Published: Apr. 15, 2025, 3:41 p.m.