The Center for History and New Media is pleased to introduce the start of a new web exhibit, GULAG: Many Days, Many Lives. This exhibit will immerse viewers in the varied experiences of an array of prisoners. In cooperation with the Gulag Museum of Perm, Russia, this website will also offer a virtual tour of a reconstructed camp.
The Gulag existed neither as a single unified experience, nor as a single unified institution. Comprised of a variety of forms of harsh detention and for a diversity of prisoners, it existed as a massive machine influencing the lives of countless people. GULAG: Many Days, Many Lives engagingly presents in vignettes and full biographies an array of prisoner lives. Major funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Coming Fall 2007)