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Gulag Memories
Documents, testimonies, letters, maps and books on the forced labour camps of the Soviet Union, gathered and annotated by the Magazine. A growing collection, open to contributions.
7 items · 1919–1978 · 9 themes
7 items
MG-00011919Official document
MG-00021937Official documentNKVD Operational Order No. 00447
The order that opened the “kulak operation”: regional arrest quotas, summary trials by troikas and two sentence categories, execution or 8 to 10 years in the camps.
MG-00041953Official documentDecree “On the Amnesty”
Three weeks after Stalin’s death, the decree proposed by Lavrentiy Beria freed about 1.2 million prisoners serving up to five years. Political convicts under Article 58 were left out.
MG-00031956Official documentOn the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
The “secret speech” in which the Soviet leader admitted to the delegates the mass arrests, torture and executions of party cadres under Stalin, opening the period of rehabilitations.
MG-00071967TestimonyJourney into the Whirlwind
The memoir of a teacher and communist from Kazan arrested in 1937, at the height of the Great Terror, and sentenced to ten years, from interrogation to the first years of labour in Kolyma.
MG-00051973BookThe Gulag Archipelago
A three-volume “experiment in literary investigation”, written in secret between 1958 and 1968 from the author’s own experience and the accounts of more than two hundred former prisoners.
MG-00061978BookKolyma Tales
A cycle of short stories about the seventeen years the author spent in the camps, most of them in the gold mines of Kolyma, in the far north-east of Siberia.Do you have a document for the library?
Letters, photographs, family testimonies and archival records help tell this history. The editors review every contribution.