Writer Varlam Shalamov on the criminal underworld’s obsession with motherhood | extract
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘This is not ancient history’: meet the artists bringing the devastating stories of Stalin’s repressions to life 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Catch this documentary delving into the legacy of Soviet gulags
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Kolyma Stories: read Varlam Shalamov’s brutally moving fragments of life in Siberia’s gulags
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                        
	
                    
                    
                        On the Road of Bones: a journey along Far East Russia’s deathly gulag trail
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Solzhenitsyn’s “life’s mission” on the Revolution to be released in English
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Wall of grief: Russia gets first national memorial to victims of Soviet repression
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Last Address memorial activist found guilty of damaging cultural heritage site
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Last Address memorial project participant charged over plaque
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Letter from Siberia: through sands and mountains in search of a gulag ghost-town
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                        
	
                    
                    
                        Crime and punishment: what really goes on in Russia’s prisons?
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Gulag memoirs: a new project catalogues troves of carceral literature
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Letter from: Vorkuta, decaying coal town in the Russian Arctic
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                        
	
                    
                    
                        Footsteps of history: I walked 2200km to retrace my grandfather’s WWII escape from a Russian gulag
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        First museum dedicated to Alexander Solzhenitsyn opens in Russia
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Gulag museum Perm-36 set for closure