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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Tiuremnyi Mir Glazami Politzakliuchennykh: 1940-1980-e Gody
[ World of prison in the eyes of political prisoners: 1940-1980]
Moscow: Muravei, 1998 384 p Serie: Ugolovnaia Rossiia: Tiur`my i Lageria Hardcover ISBN: 5897370117 Language: Russian
This book was written by V. Abramkin, who spent six years in Soviet camps as a political prisoner, and later became the leader of the Center for Prison Reform and a member of Penal Reform International, and V. Chesnokova, a well known sociologist. It includes several interviews with political prisoners on the life style and social structure of the old soviet camps (1940-1960) and of modern camps.