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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media in conjunction with George Mason University, have created a digital exhibit on the victims of the USSR’s gulag system where dissidents, members of enemy classes, and victims of Stalin’s paranoia including a select few who were genuine criminals were sent to spend in many cases of the rest of their lives. Their years were spent in hard labor, torture and suffering, a lucky few got out many did not.

The media project covers the USSR and it’s use of gulags especially in the first couple decades of the entity, they document carefully the process of arrest, farce, trial, interrogation, transport and lives at the gulag of the prisoners, including specific cases like Lev Kopelev. The funding for the Roy Rosenzewig Center for History and New Media was made with funding from GMU. The technology they used was primarily text based along with video based, with sequential paging and sections painting a complete picture of the life of someone sent to the gulags. The work done by this project is simply amazing and a testament to all who worked on it.

Example image from the multimedia history project

Bibliography

“Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives | Days and Lives.” Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. Accessed September 19, 2025. https://gulaghistory.org/exhibits/days-and-lives/labor/1/index.html.