In a run-down wooden hut deep in the Russian countryside, Yelizaveta Mikhaylova has been waiting for justice for 30 years. The daughter of a Gulag prisoner, the 72-year-old is among the ageing ...

GULAG: A History. By Anne Applebaum. Doubleday, $35; 677 pp. ON visiting Poland last month, President Bush took the time to go to Auschwitz and tour one of the most ghastly assaults to humanity in the ...

Dark tourism – involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy – is on the rise worldwide. Increasingly, this does not involve only visiting such places, but also witnessing ...

After Getman was released in 1953, he began secretly to paint a series of pictures about life in the Gulag. He told no one about his paintings -- not even his wife -- knowing that if they were ...

Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it the "mother of the Gulag" — the spot near the Arctic Circle where the Soviet Union built one of its first camps for political prisoners. Subscribe to ...

The Russian-American sculptor Ernst Neizvestny designed three memorials to the millions of victims of the gulag system of Soviet labor camps, but only one was ever realized. Twenty years after the ...

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 ...