Russia remembers Gulag chronicler Shalamov Moscow authorities and activists on Wednesday unveiled a commemorative plaque in memory of author and former Gulag prisoner Varlam Shalamov, who chronicled the horrors of Stalin-era forced labour camps but remained largely underappreciated in Russia. Like fellow ex-Gulag inmate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, who spent nearly two decades in camps, wrote about humans pushed to the brink of ...
Oct. 30, 2013 - AFP via Yahoo! News