To support the exploration and discussion of this topic, the Havighurst Center created a selection of online resources for students and the general public. Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of ...

As the Moscow institution is temporarily closed and its director, Roman Romanov, is dismissed, fears grow that Russia’s past ...

The Kremlin closes the Gulag History Museum He added that the Kremlin currently employs methods reminiscent of the communist era. He explained that for the past two years, Russian authorities have ...

RUSSIA has sentenced British PoW James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, to 19 years in the gulag after he was brutally captured in the Kursk region. The ex-British Army squaddie was sentenced by Russian ...

This story is part of “The Playbook,” our special issue in which Coda acts as your early warning system for democracy. For ...

Poles were among the first victims of the regime and the gulag labour camps, they were also among the first to report from this dark, secretive place in the Soviet world. In many ways, they were way ...

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 ...

The use convict labor isn't new to Russia. The practice dates back to the Soviet era's "Gulag" system, where convicts were assigned to work in the riskiest and most "lucrative" sectors of the ...

Irina Walsh, Ph.D. ’14, senior lecturer in Russian is the winner, along with her co-authers, of this year’s American ...