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Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives
If  you arrive late to work or crack jokes about a politician, nothing serious is likely to happen to you. But if you had the grave misfortune to commit such "crimes" in Stalin's Russia, you might have been shipped off to the Gulag. And you might never have come back. This site, companion to an exhibit touring the U.S., traces the harrowing tale of the Soviet labor camps, a brutal penal system that caught some 18 million people—from petty thieves to political activists to joke crackers—in its repressive clutches. Begin with "Stalin's Gulag," a section that includes women's experiences in the camps and what life was like in the "overcrowded, stinking, poorly-heated barracks." The section on dissidents includes a marvelous section on the human rights samizdat, and "After the USSR" examines how Russians have coped with the Gulag's legacy. (in History) |
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