Camps for Prisoners of the Lithuanian-Soviet and Polish-Soviet Wars in the Territory of the RSFSR (1918–1922) by Il'ya V. Udovenko

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Discussion About the Book by Krausz Tamás “The Fate of Ideas During the USSR History and After...” by Nina Vashkau, Arcady German, Tatiana Ivanova, Evgeniy Krinko, Sergey Sidorov

“…Historical facts and the politics of memory”, in which the author gives answers to important questions: who is responsible for the war; whether it is possible to compare the Nazi Germany with the USSR as well as GULAG and Auschwitz; who is guilty of civilians genocide and others. …”
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Poetry by V. T. Shalamov: The Biblical Text and Context

“…The search for axiological constants of human existence, enriched by the tragic experience of the gulag Golgotha, brought Shalamov from the closed sociocultural space of Soviet reality to a spiritually boundless universe. …”
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“He Beat Prisoners of War for the Slightest Violations ...”: Practice of Bringing Nazi Accomplices to Criminal Liability (Based on Archival Materials of the Federal Security Servic... by ALEKSANDR L. KUZMINYKH

“…As a rule, accomplices of Nazi crimes served their sentences in penal camps of the Gulag.…”
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Mafia and Anti-Mafia in the Republic of Georgia: criminal resilience and adaptation since the collapse of Communism by Slade, G

“…<p>'Thieves-in-law' (vory-v-zakone in Russian or kanonieri qurdebi in Georgian) are career criminals belonging to a criminal fraternity that has existed at least since the 1930s in the Soviet Gulag. These actors still exist in one form or another in post-Soviet countries and have integrated into transnational organised criminal networks. …”

Features of evacuation of prisoners in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War by Marina N. Potemkina, Il'ya O. Koldomasov

“…The situation changed in the post-Soviet period after the declassification of the Gulag documentation, when scientists were able to thoroughly study the problem of moving prisoners in the general evacuation process. …”
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Forced labor camps in the territory of Moscow Governorate in 1919–1922: work and everyday life by Il'ya V. Udovenko

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Social portrait of persons mobilized for labor in the forced labor camps of the Urals, 1941–1946 by Viktor M. Kirillov, Sergei L. Razinkov

“…Archival sources of the corrective labor camps of the Gulag and electronic databases that were compiled in the process of preparing the Books of Memory in the period from 1999 to 2021 constitute the information basis for creating a social portrait of repression victims and comparative analysis. …”
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Euroopa-ihalusest taasiseseisvusperioodi autobiograafiates / European Identifications in Post-Soviet Estonian Life Writing by Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

“…In Jaan Kaplinski’s confessional epistolary address to the author’s Polish father who died in the Gulag shortly after the birth of his son and in Õnnepalu’s semi-fictional diaristic text emerging from an obligation to write during a stay in a writers’ residence in Belgium in Vollezele, the question of subjectivity and (European) identity do not unravel primarily via an emphasis on the ruptures of the period of occupation. …”
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Investigating the meaning of work: From allusive images to paradoxes by Giorgio Faro

“…I anticipate that I will often turn to fiction and to the extreme experiences of the gulags and concentration camps to make this essay more compelling.…”
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