Background

The Unquiet Dead — the variety and status of burial grounds across Russia today

Dekulakisation — the uprooting and “resettling” of 10,000s peasant families

Deaths on the White Sea Canal — first major project in USSR using forced labour

Famine — deaths in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia’s Volga region and the “special” settlements

The Great Terror — arrest of 1.5 million and shooting of half that number between August 1937 and November 1938