"It's based on a true story." Or "It's truth, but stranger than fiction." Or even: "You couldn't make it up." When Peter Weir gets sent film scripts these days, most of them advertise themselves ...

Their correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin’s Gulag, unmediated and uncensored. Wisely, Figes lets his characters speak for themselves.

But in “real life,” these rough-looking men were from nice central European homes, as the presence of the girl reminds them. Rape would have been out of character. Advertisement ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and ...

"Most people," Milan Kundera wrote in "The Joke," "deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redress (of deeds, mistakes ...

I don't know about you, but I know nothing about the Gulag, other than the fact that it was a Russian system, Dostoyevsky spent time in one and that it was a very similar system to German ...

The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin’s Labour Camps Reviewed by Maria Lipman November/December 2024 Published on October 22, 2024 . In This Review. The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, ...