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In order to facilitate a fuller understanding of the archival information presented concerning the Gulag in the war years, an overview of Gulag studies in the West and in Russia over the decades since the Second World War has been given in the opening chapters. This survey has concentrated on the use of different types of source material, and the problems encountered and progress made as the archives began to open. The focus has been on academic publications of the 1980s and early 1990s. However, to complete the background to a study of Soviet forced labour around the war years, a grounding is necessary not only in Gulag studies, but also in the origins and aims of Stalin’s camp system itself. Such is the function of this chapter.
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D. J. Dallin, The Real Soviet Russia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947) Chapter 11
D. J. Dallin and B. I. Nikolaevsky, Forced Labour in Soviet Russia (London, 1948) p. 54.
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See M. Harrison, Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–1945 (Cambridge: CUP, 1985) Chapter 1, and Appendix 4.
A. N. Dugin, ‘Gulag: Otkryvaya arkhivy’, Na boevom postu, (Moscow, 27 December 1989) pp. 3–4.
A. Graziosi, ‘The Great Strikes of 1953 in the Soviet Labor Camps in the Accounts of their Participants: A Review’, Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique, 33/4 (1992) p. 421.
B. Roeder, Katorga: An Aspect of Modern Slavery (London, 1958).
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Bacon, E. (1996). Origins and Development. In: The Gulag at War. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14275-0_4
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