![]() ![]() ![]() During the Great Terror0's, many politicals were arrested and sentenced to the camps. In the 1930's, authorities began further expanding the camp system into the harsh climates of the far north, including the Komi and Kolyma regions. Prisoners were forced to participate in hard labor, often in large projects that were not well funded or thought out, including the White Sea Canal. These camps housed a wide variety of prisoners, from professional criminals to "kulaks" to "politicals." Leaders within the Soviet Union often used the camps as a way of eliminating political challengers—both real and perceived—and others who criticized the Soviet regimes. During this time, forced labor camps were organized throughout the Soviet Union. The first section of the book describes the origins of the Gulag from the Bolshevik Revolution through the Great Terror of the late 1930's. ![]() Applebaum makes extensive use of recently opened Gulag archives, memoirs, interviews, and other official documents to narrate this history. Gulag: A History is an account of the Soviet Russian Gulag labor camps during the twentieth century and discusses what life was like within the camps for prisoners. ![]()
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