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The Gulag spanned nearly four decades of Soviet and East European history and affected millions of individuals. Its cultural impact was enormous. The Gulag has become a major influence on contemporary Russian thinking, and an important part of modern Russian folklore.
- List of Gulag Camps
List of Gulag camps. The list below, enumerates the selected...
- The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary...
- Gulag (Disambiguation)
The Gulag was the government agency that administered the...
- Vorkutlag
The Vorkuta Corrective Labor Camp (Russian: Воркутинский...
- Death and State Funeral
Illness and death. Joseph Stalin's health had begun to...
- Genrikh Yagoda
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич...
- North Korea's Gulag
The Commission of Inquiry found evidence of systematic,...
- Israel Pliner
Notable posts include deputy chief of the Gulag from 1935 to...
- Lazar Kogan
Lazar Iosifovich Kogan (Russian: Ла́зарь Ио́сифович Ко́ган;...
- List of Gulag Camps
The Gulag was a vast network of "slave labor" camps run by the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s. Ever since the Soviet Union was founded in 1917, it imprisoned people who spoke out against it or were otherwise dangerous. Imperial Russia in previous decades had a similar system of prison camps.
Gulag: A History, also published as Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps, is a non-fiction book covering the history of the Soviet Gulag system. It was written by American author Anne Applebaum and published in 2003 by Doubleday. Gulag won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 2004 Duff Cooper Prize.
- Anne Applebaum
- 679 pp.
- 2003
- 2003
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph Stalin's rule, but in English literature the term is popularly used for the system of forced ...
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Theater, music, visual art, and literature played a role in camp life for many of the millions of prisoners who passed through the Gulag system. Some creative endeavors were initiated and executed by prisoners themselves (sometimes in secret), while others were overseen by the camp administration.
