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.

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 ...

meagre rations and books to the Komi capital for his examinations’. Over three days he took fourteen oral vivas – in obstetrics, pharmacy, pathological anatomy, children’s diseases and the history of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laurence Fox has been pictured tonight leaving Croydon police station clasping a book about Soviet forced ... while also holding onto a copy of The Gulag Archipelago by Russian writer Aleksandr ...

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 ...