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Many eyewitness accounts of Gulag prisoners have been published: Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales is a short-story collection, cited by most major works on the Gulag, and widely considered one of the main Soviet accounts. Victor Kravchenko wrote I Chose Freedom after defecting to the United States in 1944. As a leader of industrial plants he had ...
Unlike Gulag camps, located primarily in remote areas (mostly in Siberia), most of the POW camps after the war were located in the European part of the Soviet Union (with notable exceptions of the Japanese POW in the Soviet Union), where the prisoners worked on restoration of the country's infrastructure destroyed during the war: roads ...
Perm-36 (also known as ITK-6) was a Soviet forced labor colony located near the village of Kuchino, [1] 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the city of Perm in Russia. It was part of the large prison camp system established by the former Soviet Union during the Stalin era, known as the Gulag.
The Vorkuta camp was established by Soviet authorities a year later in 1932 for the expansion of the Gulag system and the discovery of coal fields by the river Vorkuta, on a site in the basin of the Pechora River, located within the Komi ASSR of the Russian SFSR (present-day Komi Republic, Russia), approximately 1,900 kilometres (1,200 mi) from ...
The Soviet Union's far-flung gulag system of prison camps provided inmate labor to develop industries such as mining and logging. ... the U.S. State Department said conditions in Russian prisons ...
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the Russian penal system was taken over by the Bolsheviks, who eventually transformed the katorga into the Gulag labor camps. In 1943 the " katorga labor " ( ка́торжные рабо́ты , kátorzhnyye rabóty ) as a special, severe type of punishment was reintroduced.
Critics say the historian is being punished over his efforts to uncover Stalin's crimes as Putin vies to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's image. Russia extends prison sentence for Gulag historian ...
Soviet Prisoners of War in World War II, which reports that of 1.5 million returnees by March 1946, 43 percent continued their military service, 22 percent were drafted into labor battalions for two years, 18 percent were sent home, 15 percent were sent to a forced labor camp, and 2 percent worked for repatriation commissions.