New East Digital Archive

Gulag

Writer Varlam Shalamov on the criminal underworld’s obsession with motherhood | extract

Writer Varlam Shalamov on the criminal underworld’s obsession with motherhood | extract

‘This is not ancient history’: meet the artists bringing the devastating stories of Stalin’s repressions to life 

‘This is not ancient history’: meet the artists bringing the devastating stories of Stalin’s repressions to life 

Catch this documentary delving into the legacy of Soviet gulags

Catch this documentary delving into the legacy of Soviet gulags

Kolyma Stories: read Varlam Shalamov’s brutally moving fragments of life in Siberia’s gulags

Kolyma Stories: read Varlam Shalamov’s brutally moving fragments of life in Siberia’s gulags

On the Road of Bones: a journey along Far East Russia’s deathly gulag trail

On the Road of Bones: a journey along Far East Russia’s deathly gulag trail

Solzhenitsyn's "life's mission" on the Revolution to be released in English

Solzhenitsyn’s “life’s mission” on the Revolution to be released in English

Wall of grief: Russia gets first national memorial to victims of Soviet repression

Wall of grief: Russia gets first national memorial to victims of Soviet repression

Last Address memorial activist found guilty of damaging cultural heritage site

Last Address memorial activist found guilty of damaging cultural heritage site

Last Address memorial project participant charged over plaque

Last Address memorial project participant charged over plaque

Letter from Siberia: through sands and mountains in search of a gulag ghost-town

Letter from Siberia: through sands and mountains in search of a gulag ghost-town

Crime and punishment: what really goes on in Russia's prisons?

Crime and punishment: what really goes on in Russia’s prisons?

Gulag memoirs: a new project catalogues troves of carceral literature

Gulag memoirs: a new project catalogues troves of carceral literature

Letter from: Vorkuta, decaying coal town in the Russian Arctic

Letter from: Vorkuta, decaying coal town in the Russian Arctic

Footsteps of history: I walked 2200km to retrace my grandfather’s WWII escape from a Russian gulag

Footsteps of history: I walked 2200km to retrace my grandfather’s WWII escape from a Russian gulag

First museum dedicated to Alexander Solzhenitsyn opens in Russia

First museum dedicated to Alexander Solzhenitsyn opens in Russia

Gulag museum Perm-36 set for closure

Gulag museum Perm-36 set for closure