The collapse of the USSR in 1991 led to historical reconsideration, but unlike in Germany or South Africa, there has been no 'truth and reconciliation' process in Russia, and many of its most shameful ...

Perm-36, also known as ITK-6, is the only intact facility remaining in Russia from the Soviet-era gulag system of political prisons and labor camps. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Perm-36 was ...

PERM, Russia -- There's one place in the world where can you see the original, preserved barracks of Josef Stalin's gulag. It's the Perm-36 camp in the Urals. The camp was abandoned in 1988 and ...

The Perm-36 Memorial Center of the History of Political Repression has closed, though it is unclear whether the decision is related to a recent ideological tendency to rehabilitate the Stalin era or ...

The era feels impossible now, in a Russia that's increasingly closed, controlled and paranoid: Crowds dancing as buskers played world beats in a muddy field outside the governor's office. A government ...

The Perm-36 Memorial Center of the History of Political Repression was recently shut down, and it remains unclear whether this was because of a recent ideological tendency to rehabilitate the Stalin ...

KUCHINO, Russia — Secrets were forbidden in camp Perm-36. Guards searched everywhere for them, even in prisoners’ eyes, ears and teeth. Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag system ...

There is a slavery museum on Gorée Island in Senegal, at a site where slave ships took their cargos of chained men and women to the New World. There is a museum at Tuol Sleng, the former high school ...

The closure of parts of the world's only preserved Gulag camp raises fears among Russian liberals of a creeping "rehabilitation" of Joseph Stalin's legacy The infamous labour camp Perm-36 closed as a ...

Mart Niklus was a hard case. In the dark days of Soviet repression, he demanded independence for his homeland, Estonia--and for that served 16 years in labor camps known collectively as the gulag, or ...

PERM, RUSSIA — This homely city on the edge of the Ural Mountains — once a place of political exile — is the unlikely forum for a furious, even bitter debate about the role of culture in public life.