Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum

female, 45 years old
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

male, 90 years old
Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world...

Stephen Grey

male, 41 years old
Stephen Grey (b. 1968 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a British journalist and author famous for accusing the CIA of running a "gulag" in works such...
Armando Valladares

Armando Valladares

male
Armando Valladares (May 30, 1937) was a political prisoner and prisoner of conscience in Cuba. Valladares was jailed in 1960, at age 23, when the...
Varlam Shalamov

Varlam Shalamov

male, deceased (1982)
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (July 1, 1907-January 17, 1982) was a Russian writer, journalist, poet, political prisoner and Gulag survivor.
Nikolai Getman

Nikolai Getman

male, deceased (2004)
Nikolai Getman, an artist, was born in 1917 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and died in Orel, Russia, in 2004. He was a prisoner from 1946 to 1953 in forced...
Alexander Dolgun

Alexander Dolgun

male, deceased (1986)
Alexander Dolgun (September 29, 1926, the Bronx, New York - August 28, 1986, Potomac, Maryland) was a survivor of the Soviet Gulag who wrote up his...
Andrei Sinyavsky

Andrei Sinyavsky

male, deceased (1997)
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (Russian language: was a Russian writer, dissident, gulag survivor, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University,...

David Rousset

male, deceased (1997)
David Rousset (January 18, 1912 - December 13, 1997) was a French writer and political activist, a recipient of Prix Renaudot, a French literary...
Lev Kopelev

Lev Kopelev

male, deceased (1997)
Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev, German spelling Lew Kopelew: April 9, 1912 – June 18, 1997) was a Soviet Russian author and a dissident. Kopelev was bo...