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His journey as an artist began under the most unlikely of circumstances: while imprisoned in a Soviet gulag after WWII ... He often painted on books and music sheets, connecting his visual ...

She has also gone further than Conquest could, making brilliant use of Gulag and secret police archives. Her book is one of the most vivid histories we have of a system – "the meat grinder ...

“That’s the financial Gulag,” one person told me ... Her husband recently turned his masters thesis into a book, The Folly of Realism, coming out at the end of February.

Tediously, however, some are using Trump’s crass rhetoric to warn that next week’s election may decide whether they continue to live free or find themselves in an American gulag archipelago.

Leafing through a book with photos of victims of Stalin's ... His wife was also targeted, spending four years in the gulag, the Soviet network of harsh prison labor camps. Maria's grandmother ...

His 2022 book, Killer in the Kremlin, charts Putin’s rise from KGB agent to despot. Here again, Putin’s shadow looms large, as Sweeney tells the story of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition ...

What was it that made this book so effective? And what did Solzhenitsyn mean by calling it “literary,” even though everything in it was factual? To answer these questions is to grasp why Gulag towers ...

Two books delve into the ordeal of the prison camps known as the gulag in the Soviet Union. Barenberg offers an overview of the Soviet penal system, masterminded by Stalin, between 1930 and 1960, when ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” (1973) will be remembered long after many celebrated 20th-century works are forgotten. That’s appropriate, for the book is all about ...

The Gulag Archipelago was first printed in Paris in December 1973. The book landed, as Ignat describes it, like a "bomb," exploding all remaining arguments for the Marxism that had destroyed ...