Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

The region was home to four special camps renowned for brutality, as highlighted in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s landmark expose “The Gulag Archipelago.” Stalin’s prisoners, convicted as ...

The Gulag system was massively extended by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, but Russia’s prisons have been used for generations to suppress dissent and control the population. In his 1862 ...