The Gulag was an administrative body that watched over the camps; eventually, its name would retrospectively be used as a name for these camps. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin was able to …

Dec 11, 2025 · Gulag, system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed the political prisoners and criminals of the …

The Soviet Gulag existed neither as a single unified experience, nor as a single unified institution. This massive and lethal machine influenced the lives of millions of people from 1917-1988.

Mar 23, 2018 · The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps established during Joseph Stalin’s reign as dictator of the Soviet Union. The notorious prisons, which incarcerated about 18 million people …

Jul 18, 2022 · Started by Vladimir Lenin, and expanded by Joseph Stalin, gulags made up a defining part of life in the Soviet Union. As many as 30,000 camps operated across the USSR, where …

Known collectively as the Gulag, this system imprisoned over 18 million people between the late 1920s and early 1950s. Many died under extreme conditions that ranged from Arctic logging sites to …

Enter a complete 3D tour of a Gulag camp illustrated by the testimonies of survivors, authentic objects and documents and explore abandoned Gulag camps along the Dead Road through an interactive …

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 also …

It explores a vision of life in what is often known as the Gulag, the Soviet labour camp system. Solzhenitsyn constructed his highly detailed narrative from various sources including reports, …

Feb 5, 2025 · During Stalin’s reign, the Soviet Union forcibly sent millions of educated citizens, labeled “enemies of the people,” to labor camps across its vast territory.