53 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestA major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.
Writing
Survivor testimonies woven with devastating archival precision.
Direction
Rotman refuses to sensationalize—lets horror speak plainly.
Creator
Patrick Rotman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rotman spent four years accessing previously sealed Russian state archives—many interview subjects spoke on camera for the first and only time.
The title deliberately echoes Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipelago,' still banned in Russian schools as of 2020.
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