Podcasts about soviet gulag

In this powerful episode of The Wilds Cast, we sit down with Natan Sharansky, a Soviet dissident, human rights activist, and former Israeli politician. Sharansky shares his harrowing experiences as a political prisoner in the Soviet Gulag, where he endured nine years of imprisonment, and his fight for Jewish freedom during the Cold War. We dive into: ✅ His extraordinary journey from Soviet oppression to Israeli leadership ✅ The refusenik movement and the struggle of Jews in the USSR ✅ How he survived years of solitary confinement with resilience and faith ✅ His political career in Israel, standing against disengagement from Gaza ✅ Modern antisemitism, the challenges faced by Jewish students, and his message to young Jews today ✅ His thoughts on Trump's peace plan, Israel's future, and the fight against Hamas Sharansky's story of courage, conviction, and unwavering identity is a must-listen for anyone passionate about freedom, Jewish history, and human rights.

Giles Udy is Britain's leading historian of the Soviet Gulag system. He is author of the phenomenal ‘Labour and the Gulag: Russia and the Seduction of the British Left' and is a regular contributor to The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the i, UnHerd and the magazine Standpoint.We sat down to discuss his new book ‘At Dawn They Came: Soviet Terror and Repression 1917 - 1953', and his time exploring what remains of the Gulag prison system in Russia. He revealed to me the untold horror of the Gulag.We also discuss the truth about socialism, its popularity in the West and its dangers. All this and much more…-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To see more exclusive content and interviews consider subscribing to my substack here: https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA:Substack: https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/X: https://twitter.com/mrwinmarshallInsta: https://www.instagram.com/winstonmarshallLinktree: https://linktr.ee/winstonmarshall----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapters 0:00 - Introduction 2:55 - Understanding Socialism and Communism 5:26 - Marxist Socialism and Its Implications 6:41 - Socialism vs. Capitalism and State Control 11:07 - The Evolution of Socialism and Its Influence24:26 - The Appeal of Marxism and Its Counterfeit Religion31:34 - The Role of Education and Cultural Marxism 40:55 - The Gulag and the Human Cost of Socialism 56:33 - The Historical Context of Soviet Repression 1:16:19 - The Role of Violence in Marxist Revolution 1:17:01 - The Legacy of Lenin and Stalin 1:26:12 - The Personal Stories Of Gulag Victims 1:31:49 - Impact of Political Arrests on Families 1:33:31 - The Finnish Family's Tragic Story 1:36:23 - British Workers and the Revolution 1:38:01 - The Cost of Utopia and The Lessons of History 1:40:19 - The Role of Media and Dissident Journalists 1:42:39 - The Future of Socialism and Communism 1:46:34 - Final Thoughts and Recommendations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it wasn't the Germans who first uprooted Stanislaw Kulik and his family—it was the Russians. Deported to a Siberian Gulag, Stanislaw's fate took a dramatic turn in 1941 when the Germans launched their invasion of the Soviet Union. Suddenly, the Russians released their Polish captives, and Stanislaw embarked on an arduous journey across thousands of miles. He eventually joined the Polish army in Uzbekistan, a path that would lead him to Britain and ultimately to the frontlines in Holland, where he fought with the Polish Parachute Brigade at Arnhem. Joining me is Nicholas Kinloch, the grandson of Stanislaw Kulik. Nicholas has chronicled his grandfather's extraordinary wartime experience in his book, From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem: A Polish Paratrooper's Epic Wartime Journey.   patreon.com/ww2podcast  

On June 8, 1978, Harvard University invited the Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn to deliver a major commencement address. Solzhenitsyn was, by this time, a world famous figure who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Some two and a half decades earlier, while serving in the Soviet army during World War II, he was arrested and sent to the Gulag for criticizing the Soviet premier Joseph Stalin in a private letter. He was imprisoned there for nearly a decade, during which he underwent a profound spiritual, religious, philosophical reorientation and awakening, eventually reflecting on his experiences in a major study of Soviet Gulag system, The Gulag Archipelago. In time, he was freed from the camp but exiled from the Soviet Union. He settled in America, and there, was thought perhaps to be a valuable critic of the Soviet system. But the fact that he was a critic of Soviet repression and the soul-deforming debasement that Russians were forced to endure did not necessarily mean that he would endorse the American system in which he had found his freedom. When Harvard invited Solzhenitsyn to address their graduating classes that year, probably weren't expecting so thoroughgoing a critique civic, philosophical, and moral as the one he delivered, warning Americans about deep-seated tendencies of mind that could lead their nation into the very sort of societal sickness from which he had just escaped. This week, as students return to campus, Solzhenitsyn's analysis of America's vulnerabilities may still be relevant. To think about that, host Jonathan Silver here speaks with the literature scholar Gary Saul Morson, author of a recent essay called “Solzhenitsyn Warned Us".

With Wall Street Journal reported Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years on what I consider wholly spurious espionage charges (and I explain why I think this), it's a suitable moment first to consider the likely reasons but also what kind of experience faces him in the Russian prison camp system.That leads me on to discuss three recent books of relevance:Vladimir Pereverzin's The Prisoner. Behind Bars in Putin's Russia (Gemini, 2024)Jeffrey Hardy's The Soviet Gulag. History and Memory (Bloomsbury, 2023)Barry Lewis's Gulag. A photographic journey into the darkness of Stalin's prison camps (Fistful of Books, 2024)The Eurasian Knot podcast I mentioned with Anna Arutunyan and me talking about our book Downfall is here.The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hybrid warfare, counter-terrorism, civil affairs and similar situations.You can also follow my blog, In Moscow's Shadows, and become one of the podcast's supporting Patrons and gain question-asking rights and access to exclusive extra materials right here. Support the Show.

What does this 2024 film, portraying the family life of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolph Hoss, teach us about that family's ability to compartmentalize the horrors from which they directly benefit, and what lessons does this hold for us? How does the film make use of the aural atmosphere laying over the mundane activities of the family to implicate their guilt? How does the film portray the bravery and heroism of the young girl who, at great risk to herself, plants apples around the work areas for the prisoners that are slave laborers? Does the concluding set of scenes, showing Hoss retching as he descends a darkened flight of stairs alone, and then taking us forward in time to the present-day Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum, portray Hoss's recognition, at some level, of the enormity of his crimes, illustrating something reflected upon by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he wrote about his own experiences in the Soviet Gulag system? “the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”

As Summer of Rage 2.0 is rolled out to further destabilize our society, there's an important truth we must not forget. Barry Brownstein shares Viktor Frankl's thoughts on why there is no collective guilt. The thought of another world war is daunting to anyone with a conscience. Rebekah Bills has a thoughtful take on how she's preparing her children for WW III. Most of the people sentenced to the Soviet Gulag were sent there to "fix their thinking" rather than for actual crimes. J.B. Shurk says our own Marxist health officials want us committed for similar reasons. The single biggest voting bloc that is supporting the hard left agenda in America today is single women. Andrea Widburg says, it's time to repeal the 19th Amendment. Article of the Day: Every election cycle, politics takes on a kind of religious fervor that brings out the worst in the true believers. Lawrence W. Reed explains how C.S. Lewis saw government as a poor substitute for God. Sponsors: Life Saving Food  Fifty Two Seven Alliance Iron Sight Brewing Co. Quilt & Sew

December 12th 2023 A raw episode exposing the horrors of war in Ukraine. Yuriy shares heart-rending stories from the mass graves, revealing the brutal reality faced by Ukrainians throughout history. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: fightingtherussianbeast@gmail.com    You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family   Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Podbean app users can enjoy closed captions) It's December 12th.  The last century has been very difficult and bloody for Ukraine. It was on the territory of Ukraine that the most fierce battles of both World Wars took place. People died here for years due to Stalin's repressions, nazi occupation, and the artificial famine organized by the Soviet authorities. All over the country, there are mass graves of people who died during the difficult trials that have befallen the Ukrainian people over the past hundred years. In Ukraine these burials have a name that literally translate as "a grave of brothers" because most of those buried in them are just brothers in arms who were either killed in wars or died in German captivity or in the Soviet Gulag. But now this name is losing its meaning. Most of wars who lie in the new mass graves are not brothers in arms. They are civilians who had nothing to do with the army or the partisan resistance to a Russian occupation. Moreover, very often there are much more women and children in these graves than men, the Russian army is fighting against unarmed women. The Russian army is torturing and killing children. At the beginning of the war, I told in one of the episodes about a torture room that the Russians set up in the basement of the school and where they tortured an old disabled man to death just because we found a photo of his son in Ukrainian uniform in his house. So, this was not a terrible accident, not an isolated excess, this is the norm for the Russian Army. Russians receive awards for the murder of elderly and children. They are given cash prizes for the rape and looting of Ukrainians. They are proud of it. You know, making a deal with Putin now, freezing the war on the front line that exists now means only one thing: to allow the Russians to kill rob and torture people in the occupied territories. Because that's what they came for. It was for the sake of killing us with impunity that they started this war. If you have not seen a long and not very deep pit in which 30 that people are lying at once with wear hands tied behind wear backs... People whose only crime is that they are Ukrainians, people simply beaten to death with at least half of dead being women... If you have not seen this with your own eyes, consider yourself a happy person.  The romanticization of war in books and movies is complete bullshit. People don't die like in movies -quickly and beautifully while saying some smart things. People die slowly and very painfully. They bleed, they cry, they beg for help, call their mother and children. Their blood mixes with a daughter round, it gets stuck with fired cartridges and boots or war who are nearby. People die for hours sometimes, days, experiencing incredible pain at the same time. There is nothing romantic, nothing beautiful or noble about it. It just horror, pure horror, but it's twice as horrible when civilians die in the war when invading army. Kills people near their homes. It seems to me that if all these politicians who say something about futility of helping Ukraine saw these graves- graves, that in the last century were called graves of brothers, and now we can be called graves of sisters- if they saw them, they would shut up forever and never again would we stick their bad, stupid thoughts anywhere. But they did not see it, and they never will. And that's why we will lie and as long as we will lie, people, innocent people will die every day and every hour 

Canada is a Marxist and communist hell hole where nobody can make any money and everybody who has a dissenting opinion about the liberal party and the government itself goes to prison just like in the Soviet Gulag days. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever for decent people born in this country to stick around and try to exist and or coexist with all of the criminals and filthy trash being brought into this country from around the world. Let's also not forget that every politician in this country are themselves filthy trash which is why all of you are broke through no fault of your own. Tonight I have special guest Mark Savoy with me talking about how to get your money out of Canada and where to start a brand new life away from all this communist nonsense designed to keep you depressed and keep you broke.

Historian Catherine Merridale witnessed the birth of Memorial in 1989 as the Soviet Union died. An organisation devoted to recovering the past of the Soviet Gulag and soon documenting the new transgressions of the Russian state and its imperial wars. Even as Russia wnet to war against Ukraine it sought to close Memorial down, silence its voice and reshape history. But months after the invasion Memorial shared in the Nobel Peace Prize, only adding to the Russian government's ire. It has closed its archives and offices and pursued leading figures in Russian Memorial through the courts, declaring them responsible for 'rehabilitating Nazism'. Merridale tells a personal story of the opening of history that Memorial was essential to and the tragedy of its closing and the closing of the past. The Kremlin's current occupants are no more willing to consider the victims of state repression - largely Stalin's repression - than their Soviet predecessors were. The story of Memorial, the association, established in 1989, that set out to find, investigate and discuss the Soviet Union's record of political violence against its own citizens, is one of real heroism. From its initial aim of creating a physical memorial to Stalin's victims it became a focus for research and advocacy, a living witness to the intellectual freedom that comes after the past is faced. The state argues that what it does - harping on about Stalin's crimes - dilutes great Russian patriotism. Some of its critics have gone as far as to say that Memorial's work helps to justify Nazism. But branches of Memorial in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe do what they can to keep memory alive. Producer: Mark Burman

Today, we finish up our five-part series on the Soviet Gulag system. The punishments and rewards as well as the dismantling of the camps are discussed.Support the show

Today, we discuss the work done in the Gulags. Brutal and sometimes absurd, work was the reason for the people to populate the prisoner camps. Festive Foreign Film FansTwo regular American guys explore other people and cultures through the common...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Today, we continue our series about the Soviet Gulag with first-hand accounts of life within the camps. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportSupport the show

Today, we talk about some of the experiences of women related to the gulag experience. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportSupport the show

Rob and Terry discuss books about Manson and the Soviet Gulag, house boat rescues, running in stilettos, and do a Retro Review of the 1983 Gene Hackman movie: Uncommon Valor.  Don't miss their Mount Rushmore of "Let's Get the Team Together" movies. (2:09:35)

Today, we begin a five-part series on one of the most tragic institutions in Soviet history, the Gulag. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFrom Secretary to CEOWelcome to "From Secretary to CEO", the podcast that takes you on a journey of personal...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Rob shares his insights and discoveries for this week in the hope that you will share, absorb, learn, understand or be inspired by at least one of the lessons in your leadership position. After listening to an interview with Gary Neville, former Manchester United Player of 600 games, England International player and now a respected TV football presenter, Rob has picked out some points that he has taken from this unusually outspoken discussion. KEY TAKEAWAYS Neville's work ethic was very evident. Phrases such as ‘leave nothing on the pitch' and ‘the only thing in life we have to offer is hard work' were scattered throughout the interview.  We need to have a place of safety in order to grow successfully and regroup. Neville had this as part of his team. His support structure was rigid, family-based and unquestionable.  Rob is reading The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation,  a three-volume non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which covers the writers' and others' experiences in the Soviet Gulag system.  The sort of courage epitomised by characters such as Muhammad Ali proves that people can shake up the world. And you can shake up your world too.  BEST MOMENTS ‘He just got up day after day after day and did it again and again and again. He talked about ‘finding a way to win' and I don't mind saying that it pricks my conscience a little bit because when I look back it made me look at the times and think ‘could I have done more?'' ‘He talked about his dad primarily. How he used to call his dad on the phone three or four times a day.' ‘And, ladies and gentlemen listening to this podcast, you have no idea what's inside people unless you find out. You have no idea, more to the point, what's inside you.'  ‘Not only did Muhammad Ali achieve great things in the ring he stood up for what he believed in.' VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast    ABOUT THE HOST Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches. The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life. CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=ukSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/robrylesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Knyzhka Corner Book Review: Survival as Victory – Ukrainian Women in the Gulag, published by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, examines the stories of Ukrainian women who were sentenced to the Soviet Gulag in the 1940's and 1950's • Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: an interview with Canadian author Regina Gershman about her recently released book Rebecca's Journey: Memoir of a Young Girl Fleeing Antisemitism in Russia, her childhood recollections of discrimination in the USSR and emigration to Canada, and her work helping today's refugees from oppression and war in Ukraine (Part 1 of 2) • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian Music!Ukrainian Proverb of the Week:Для правди справедливости колись таки мусять дорогу відчинити.Sooner or later a path must be made for truth and justice. Join Pawlina for the Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio—every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB and streaming at www.am1320.com.Vancouver area listeners can hear the Nanaimo edition of Nash Holos every Wednesday with host Oksana Poberezhnyk from 11am-1pm PST on CHLY 101.7fm and streaming at chly.caIn between broadcasts, please check out our website for audio archives, transcripts, and more. Check out the links there to support the show and several charities providing aid to Ukrainian civilians and defenders being brutalized by Russian military attacks. Support the show on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Two stories this week, the first a chassid of the Baal Shem Tov is given guidance as to how to meet Eliyahu HaNavi at the Seder and the second story about Reb Mendel Futerfas having a yechidus (private meeting) with the Lubavitcher Rebbe while in the Soviet Gulag. Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/mama-what-will-we-eat-for-the-seder. To become a part of this project please go to https://www.patreon.com/barakhullman. Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com. Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas. Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman.

Photo: One photo from a montage of scenes from the life of the Soviet GULAG prison camps system, circa 1920s–1950s. The "[l]iterary historian George Watson cited an 1849 article written by Friedrich Engels called 'The Hungarian Struggle' and published in Marx's journal Neue Rheinische Zeitung, stating that the writings of Engels and others show that 'the Marxist theory of history required and demanded genocide for reasons implicit in its claim that feudalism, which in advanced nations was already giving place to capitalism, must in its turn be superseded by socialism. Entire nations would be left behind after a workers' revolution, feudal remnants in a socialist age, and since they could not advance two steps at a time, they would have to be killed. They were racial trash, as Engels called them, and fit only for the dung-heap of history.' " @Batchelorshow The Eurasian Empires of China and Russia and the "blood-soaked" modernization drives of the 20th Century. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety ..  ..  ..  Permissions: Montage of scenes from the life of the Soviet GULAG prison camps system, circa 1920s-1950s. Source | Own work Date | 2020-05-05 Author | CapLiber I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

How do we hold totalitarians responsible? How do we guard against the return of some of the worst evils of mankind? Myroslav Marynovych was imprisoned in a Soviet Gulag for seven years. He was a prisoner of conscience, locked away for pushing for human rights. His new memoir was published by the University of Rochester Press, and he's visiting the university to discuss his vision for human rights. But first, we talk with him on Connections. Our guests: Myroslav Marynovych, author of "The Universe Behind Barbed Wire" Randy Stone , chair of the Department of Political Science, and director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies at the University of Rochester​​

Amelia Pang, Author of Made in China: A Prisoner, An SOS Letter and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods shares her research into forced labour camps -many of which were modelled after the Soviet Gulag - and tackles the layered question of what corporations can do in the fight against forced labour in this conversation with Michelle Martin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s―covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s―covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s―covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s―covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s―covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s―covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Famed international conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn discusses his father Aleksandr’s experiences and remarkable transformation in the Soviet Gulag. (Encore Presentation)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we discuss the infamous Soviet Gulag system--and the man who exposed it to the West. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spent years in the Soviet Gulag, and he was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism.

This episode investigates the power behind the Soviet Union Gulag camps. Listeners will be provided with a richer understanding of how the Gulag camps contributed to Stalin's political regime during the mid-20th century. Tune in to learn about a system based on fear and secrecy, rather than on trust and support.

Famed international conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn discusses his father Aleksandr’s experiences and remarkable transformation in the Soviet Gulag. (Encore Presentation)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I review the book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. The book follows the protagonist Ivan Denosovich Shukov through a typical day in the Soviet Gulag camp. Survival is what drives the prisoners as they work in -35 degree temperatures. I highly recommend this book.

Sometimes we forget that the field of war and society encompasses so much more than Canada. Many of the guests we've had on our show study the history of war and society in Canada, but in this episode, Wilson Bell speaks about the Soviet Gulag system during the Second World War and his new book, Stalin's Gulag at War. Wilson Bell is an associate professor of history at Thompson Rivers University. He is the author of numerous articles on the Gulag, and his first book, Stalin’s Gulag at War, was published in 2018 with the University of Toronto Press. References Wilson T. Bell, Stalin's Gulag at War: Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory during the Second World War (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018).

Famed international conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn discusses his father Aleksandr’s experiences and remarkable transformation in the Soviet Gulag.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we cover one of the architects of the infamous Soviet GULAG system, who started his career as an inmate of the very system he would reshape forever!

Mark Galeotti takes us into the Soviet Gulag to tell us the brutal history of the Bitch War, ToE's Andrew Callaway checks in on the war on smoking and P.W. Singer explains how #likewar works. Plus Sleeper Net?

Jaroslaw Martyniuk gave a lecture on his book "Monte Rosa: Memoir of an Accidental Spy" on July 11, 2018, at The Institute of World Politics. This event was sponsored by the Center for Intermarium Studies and the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies. About the Book: A sweeping panorama of the author's life from the outbreak of WWII to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The narrative begins in Ukraine and ends in Paris where he coordinated the work of fifty undercover interviewers engaged in unorthodox research with Soviet visitors in Western Europe, a chapter of Cold War history never revealed in such remarkable detail. The story includes the author's narrow escape from Communism, an account of his extended family's ordeal in the Soviet Gulag, life in post-war Bavaria, thirty years in Chicago and culminates with twelve years in France where he worked for the International Energy Agency and Radio Liberty. About the Author: Jaroslaw Martyniuk is a former energy economist with the IEA/OECD and a retired sociologist living in Washington, D.C. As a research analyst for Radio Liberty's Soviet Area Audience and Opinion Research office in Paris during the eighties, he was responsible for coordinating work of fifty Russian-speaking interviewers conducting “unorthodox” public opinion polling with visitors from the Soviet Union, intelligence work carried out on behalf international broadcasters and other interested parties. A Ukrainian-born American, his life story encompasses a narrow escape from Communism at the end of World War II, life in postwar Germany, emigration to the United States and a career with Amoco Oil in Chicago. In 1979, he returned to Europe where he lived for fifteen years until his work took him to Washington D.C.. Martyniuk speaks five languages and during his multiple careers travelled to every country in continental Europe and visited all of the republics of the former Soviet Union save one.

Summary: This is part 2 of the talk given by Krysia Griffith-Jones about her life story during the WWII. Talks given by a Polish Second World War survivor about being a refugee in 1939, arrest and imprisonment by the Soviets. Her trek to join the Anders Army and other wartime experiences. Why have this talk … Continue reading Krysia Griffith-Jones – Part 2 – Release from Soviet Gulag and Service in the Anders Army (s4ep11) → The post Krysia Griffith-Jones – Part 2 – Release from Soviet Gulag and Service in the Anders Army (s4ep11) appeared first on Project Kazimierz.

In this episode we discuss the infamous Soviet Gulag system. Did they serve a useful purpose? How harsh were the conditions? Why did they form in the first place? How do the Gulags compare to modern prison systems? We will answer these questions and more.

Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EU's Chief for Health and Food Safety, a heart surgeon and historian who started his life in a Soviet Gulag, addresses issues such as food shortages and safety in a personal and unique manner.  Perhaps a humanist above all else, hear him explain why the way forward is “...a global approach; we need global solutions to stop health threats.”  

Not perhaps since Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Gulag has there been a dissenting artist who got to be as famous as the government that hounds him. But Ai Weiwei’s situation is one-of-a-kind.He’s a scathing ... The post Ai Weiwei, China’s Artist/Enemy #1 appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

The Soviet Gulag system is said to live on in Kazakhstan's jails, the prison population are thought be facing' daily torture and humiliation. Rayhan Demeytrie investigates.

Thomas Jefferson valued higher education; perhaps more than any other Founding Father. He envisioned a University system where students and faculty would explore ideas in a bastion of free expression. That did not turn out to be the case. Our colleges censor speech and have become citadels of political correctness. Saying something which offends another student or speaking an unpopular thought will get you thrown out. Disagreeing with your professor is likely to earn you an ?F.? Think I?ve overstated the case? Harvey Silverglate, Co-founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education joins Bob to talk about the the ugly truth of ?higher? education. The good news is that at the end of our show you?ll feel justified to stop payment on your alumni contributions. Let?s reclaim our colleges and remove the shackles on free speech which they impose.

Thomas Jefferson valued higher education; perhaps more than any other Founding Father. He envisioned a University system where students and faculty would explore ideas in a bastion of free expression. That did not turn out to be the case. Our colleges censor speech and have become citadels of political correctness. Saying something which offends another student or speaking an unpopular thought will get you thrown out. Disagreeing with your professor is likely to earn you an “F.” Think I've overstated the case? Harvey Silverglate, Co-founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education joins Bob to talk about the the ugly truth of “higher” education. The good news is that at the end of our show you'll feel justified to stop payment on your alumni contributions. Let's reclaim our colleges and remove the shackles on free speech which they impose.