The economics of forced labor : the Soviet Gulag

The economics of forced labor : the Soviet Gulag / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev ; foreword by Robert Conquest.

"The authors examine the various forms of coercion and the channels through which coerced labor was distributed from the late 1930s to Stalin's death in 1953 and reveal why the Gulag emerged and its perceived economic rationale. They detail the chronology of the Gulag from the first major...

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Other Authors: Gregory, Paul R., Lazarev, V. V. (Valeriĭ Vasilʹevich)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, CA : Hoover Institution Press, 2003.
Series:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 518.
Subjects:
Prison industries > Economic aspects > Soviet Union.
Forced labor > Economic aspects > Soviet Union.
Industrialization > Soviet Union.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Human Resources & Personnel Management.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Economic history
Industrialization
Politics and government
Prison industries > Economic aspects
Aufsatzsammlung
Zwangsarbeit
Straflager
Dwangarbeid.
Economische aspecten.
Industrialisatie.
Strafkampen.
Soviet Union > Economic conditions.
Soviet Union > Politics and government.
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
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Table of Contents:
  • Forced labor in Soviet industry: the end of the 1930s to the mid-1950s: an overview / Andrei Sokolov
  • The economy of the OGPU, NKVD, and MVD of the USSR, 1930-1953: the scale, structure, and trends of development / Oleg Khlevnyuk
  • The end of the gulag / Aleksei Tikhonov
  • Coercion versus motivation: forced labor in Norilsk / Leonid Borodkin and Simon Ertz
  • Magadan and the economic history of Dalstroi in the 1930s / David Nordlander
  • Building Norilsk / Simon Ertz
  • The White Sea-Baltic canal / Mikhail Morukov
  • The gulag in Karelia: 1929 to 1941 / Christopher Joyce.

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