Yellowed, dusty, covered in thick cardboard, and held together with string, the Gulag photo albums stored in the Russian State Archive look, at first glance, like nothing more than old family albums kept too long in the attic. But even when opened, their true function isn’t immediately clear. Continue reading “Album from Hell”
Album from Hell
- Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps
by Tomasz Kizny, Firefly Books, 2004, 496pp.