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GULAG Events Listen to WBUR's, Boston's NPR affiliate, Ken Shulman report on the Gulag exhibit. Gulag: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom This exhibit from Russia’s Gulag Museum in Perm traces the history of the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system, and highlights the role of Perm-36, an especially harsh camp that operated until 1988. The exhibit features oral interviews with former prisoners, archival footage, full-scale recreations of prison camp cells, maps, historic photographs, and artifacts from daily camp life. View the Gulag History website Conference on the Soviet Gulag: Its History and Legacy The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University will host an international conference on the history and legacy of the Gulag. The conference will be held on November 2-5, 2006. Historians, literature scholars, political scientists, sociologists, economists and anthropologists will gather to discuss the burgeoning scholarship on the Gulag and its ongoing legacies. Topics for discussion include the history of the Stalinist Gulag, economy of the Gulag, literature of the Gulag, release from the Gulag, the legacy of the Gulag in the post-Stalin and post-Soviet periods, the dissident and human rights movement in the Soviet Union, nationality/ethnicity in the Gulag, the Gulag in comparative perspective, contemporary Russian attitudes toward the history of the Stalinist past and contemporary Russian penal policies. The scholarly communities of the greater Boston area will be invited to attend the conference. Related Events: Territories of Terror: Mythology, Memory, History Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Stoppard, in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform.
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