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Joseph Stalin's gulag system was a network of labour camps across the USSR, which were, from 1930, used to detain criminals and anyone considered enemies of the state. A wide spectrum of Soviet society...

A reconstruction of the interior of an accommodation hut in a Soviet gulag labour camp in Latvia. Photograph by Marcin Szala, 2011. Stalin's gulag system, which was spread across the USSR from 1930 to 1960, detained millions...

Part of a gulag labour camp in Vorkuta, Russia, 1945. Stalin's gulag system, which was spread across the USSR from 1930 to 1960, detained millions of civilians regarded as 'enemies of the state.' Russian Federation State...

Photograph of a Soviet Gulag in Estonia, c. 1940s-50s. Gulags were used to detain those considered enemies of the state where they were used as forced labour. Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a former inmate of Stalin's gulag system, a network of forced labour camps across the USSR in operation from 1930 to 1960. Photograph taken in Germany in 1974. The camps detained millions of civilians...

Ukrainian Victims of Nazism: POWs, Ostarbeiters, and Burned Villages What did Nazi Germany's occupation mean for Ukrainians who were not Jewish? This lecture explores the colonial...

Joseph Stalin's five-year plans (1928-50) were a series of state-led initiatives which aimed to grow the economy of the USSR, rapidly industrialise what was still a largely agricultural...

Joseph Stalin's policy to collect private farms into cooperatives and wholly state-owned farms across the USSR began in 1928. Stalin hoped the process of collectivisation would modernise Soviet agriculture...

The USSR's Great Famine of 1932-3 was caused by a combination of aggressive requisitioning of foodstuffs by the state, the sale of grain abroad, persecution of farmers, and the general mismanagement of the countryside...

The (Un)finished Second World War While WWII officially began in 1939 and ended in 1945, Ukraine’s experience tells a different story. This lecture explores how the war in Ukraine started earlier, continued long...