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  • Political prisoners eating lunch in the Intalag coal mine
    Political prisoners eating lunch in the Intalag coal mine
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    A Zek Remembers Stalin’s Camps

    A new foreword to Julius Margolin’s stunning, recovered memoir of the gulag

    byTimothy Snyder
  • Nadezhda Levitskaya, 86, Solzhenitsyn's assistant.(Michail Bogachev, © Mayfilms)
    Nadezhda Levitskaya, 86, Solzhenitsyn's assistant.(Michail Bogachev, © Mayfilms)
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    Women of the Gulag: From Stalin to Pussy Riot

    A new history and film remind amnesiac Russia of the individual lives shattered and disfigured by Stalinist oppression

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • Natan Sharansky being released during a prisoner exchange in Berlin, February 11, 1986.(STR/AFP/Getty Images)
    Natan Sharansky being released during a prisoner exchange in Berlin, February 11, 1986.(STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Camp Fire

    In his memoir, the famous refusenik remembered celebrating Hanukkah in the Soviet Gulag

    byNatan Sharansky
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