If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
“In the Gulag, it was not the case that people died like flies. Rather, flies died like people.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.” — Benjamin Kunkel Copy Share Image
“In the Gulag Archipelago there are no heroes or villains. No prince or pauper. It is the most democratic of all societies.… — Kati Marton Copy Share Image
If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and… — Varlam Shalamov Copy Share Image
“Romanii actualizasera deja acest mare adevar, ignorat de Gulag, si anume ca nu este rentabil sa infometezi un sclav, e mai convenabil… — Alexandr Soljenitin Copy Share Image
“I once went to a Russian restaurant called “Stalin’s Café.” All the items on the menu looked tempting, but after careful deliberation,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“When our life crackles and sparks like a torch, we curse the necessity of spending eight hours uselessly in sleep. When we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of prison in the gulag. One is for prisoners sentenced to ‘revolutionary re-education through labour’. If they survive… — Hyeonseo Lee Copy Share Image
“Three prisoners in the gulag get to talking about why they are there. “I am here because I always got to work… — Roy Medvedev Copy Share Image
“To outsmart you they thought up work squads—but not squads like the ones outside the camps, where everyone is paid his separate… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In 1929 the leadership replaced institutions for long-term prisoners with work camps, designed to extract minerals in Siberia and other remote areas… — David Priestland Copy Share Image
“In the Soviet Union, for example, shooting or jailing political opponents at first helped the Communist Party and then Josef Stalin gain… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“One might say that, until now, the social, cultural, and political framework for knowledge of the Gulag has not been in place.… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Oh, "what an intelligent, farsighted humane administration from top to bottom," as Supreme Court Judge Leibowitz of New York State wrote in… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“A volley thundered — and the prisoner kneeling beside Peter collapsed lifelessly into the dirt. Three more men fell elsewhere along the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Operational inquiry has established that Danylo Shablia assisted in the espionage activities of his son, Peter Shablia, helping him organize an anti-Soviet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But it is impossible to picture any of our interrogators, right up to Abakumov and Beria , wanting to slip into prisoner's… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be drenched in water, frozen, and then enjoyed like a giant cotton popsicle by prisoners of a gulag, who… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“It was officially known as Kwan-li-so Number 18. That meant Penal Labor Colony in Korean. It was a concentration camp. It was… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“You know I won’t take a chance with your lives…” Ethan replied. “You’re the future of the Fortner family.” He smiled and… — C.G. Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
