Labour And The Gulag by Giles Udy
Drawing on recently opened archives and eyewitness accounts, this book traces the growth and mechanics of the Soviet forced-labour system across the 1930s to the postwar era, showing how mass imprisonment and coerced labour became central to industrialisation and political repression. It documents the harsh conditions, large-scale projects (canals, mines, infrastructure) built by prisoners, the administrative structures that ran the camps, and the human cost in lives and suffering, arguing that forced labour was a core instrument of Soviet economic policy and state control rather than a peripheral atrocity.
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