University of Glasgow provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Dark tourism – involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy – is on the rise worldwide.

In Karaganda, the painful memories of the infamous Soviet gulag here are part and parcel of the identity of the Jews who live in the city. KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan (JTA) — Liza Luchanskiy was born to a ...

ON visiting Poland last month, President Bush took the time to go to Auschwitz and tour one of the most ghastly assaults to humanity in the history of mankind. After finishing his tour, he remarked: ...

Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it the "mother of the Gulag" — the spot near the Arctic Circle where the Soviet Union built one of its first camps for political prisoners. Now the site ...

It's been 50 years since the publication in 1962 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich," a grim tale of imprisonment that laid bare for the first time the extent of ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...

In a run-down wooden hut deep in the Russian countryside, Yelizaveta Mikhaylova has been waiting for justice for 30 years. The daughter of a Gulag prisoner, the 72-year-old is among the ageing ...