Can there be a duty to read a work of literature? Most people I’ve met who are at least aware of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago know that they should read the book. They ...

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 died in the ...

MOSCOW — Russia has made a once-banned book recounting the brutality and despair of the Soviet Gulag required reading in the country’s schools, the Education Ministry said in a statement today. The ...

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In this lecture delivered by University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson, he explores 'The Gulag Archipelago' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (buy on Amazon or listen to the audiobook for ...

Polar Wolf, the penal colony where Alexei Navalny died on February 16 - REUTERS Even within Russia’s notorious penal colony system, prison FGU IK-3, or the Polar Wolf as it is more commonly known, has ...

The perfect romantic getaway for a night in Liepaja, Latvia: a night in a KGB gulag! I've packed some light reading, a toilet roll (just in case), a towel and an electric toothbrush. My guide and ...

Alligator Alcatraz is still open and keeping detainees in its caged facilities. Most people we talk to do not know that an appeals court overturned the lower judge’s order to close the camp. Our ...

We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced ...