Gulag

8 Aug 2008

This week: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn - who won the Nobel Prize for literature for his work about life in slave labour camps under Stalinism -...

3:51PM

Gulag parable

25 Feb 2005

The Tyrant's Novel

(Sceptre) by Thomas Keneally

3:32AM

Surviving the gulag

24 Oct 1998

In a heart-warming salute to the resilience of the human spirit, Hong Kong's adopted writer Martin Booth tells the story of British citizen Alexander Bayliss, sent to a Russian gulag in the early...

5:47AM

Author's sad homecoming

26 May 1994

AT 75, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is returning to the Russia of his dreams. The author is about to wake up to a less wonderful reality. But that matters less than another reality: that the new Russia...

10:23AM

Must act like civilised nations

30 Apr 1993

MY compliments on publishing the book review on Laogai: The Chinese Gulag (South China Morning Post, April 17).

6:32PM

Put an end to island gulag

9 Feb 1993

A FEW weeks ago several hundred Vietnamese detainees were taken out of a section of Whitehead Detention Centre, in what is believed to be a prelude to their forced repatriation to Vietnam.

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