Semyon Gluzman, who has died aged 79, was the first Soviet psychiatrist to blow the whistle on the Soviet Union’s abuse of psychiatry – for which he spent seven years in the gulag.

Since the fall of 1917, when Lenin seized power in Russia, the evils of communism have been exposed by courageous witnesses, some of whom emerged from “penal” and forced labor camps that Alexander ...

This video explores the history and human impact of the Soviet Gulag system, a network of forced labor camps that operated. Millions of prisoners were sent to these camps, where they worked in mines, ...

The phrase laojiao (劳教) doesn’t carry the same resonance as the word gulag. But this brutal Chinese system of re-education through labor isn’t so different from the Soviet archipelago of repression ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Kim Hae-sook was only 13 years old when she was dragged off to a North Korea prison camp for nearly 30 years, punished along with the rest of her family simply because her ...

According to Golfo Alexopoulos and new evidence, the essential purpose of the Gulags was violent human exploitation. The system of exploitation during Stalin’s years was unchanging, punitive, and ...