The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations ...

Lucas Menget, a French journalist and filmmaker, called it a “tropical gulag.” He visited CECOT in order to make a TV documentary for ARTE, a European public service channel, the week before ...

How many died? There is no accurate answer. Applebaum “reluctantly” gives a figure of 2,749,163, although it is probably an ...