A study mapping the link between gulags and regional growth in Russia can teach us something about reviving our own left ...

A new study reveals that regions near Soviet GULAG camps are more prosperous today, thanks to the unintended legacy of ...

Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...

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 ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

The Soviet Gulag prison system was set up in the 1920's by the ruling communist party. Soviet Gulags were forced labour camps. They held prisoners in harsh living conditions, where any treatment ...

Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison system. During an escape attempt in 1954 he spent five months hiding in a freezing mine with two ...

And for North Koreans outside the camps, the fear of the gulag ensures their loyalty to a paranoid regime that's highly conscious of its own questionable long-term outlook. Even so, a combination ...

JOURNALIST John Sweeney has challenged dictators, cult leaders and crooked businessmen for almost half a century. The author ...

Although it's possible to be paired with a squadmate in the Gulag, especially if both players died at around the same time, it's more likely that players will find themselves paired with a stranger.