1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790856803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

0-8179-3943-1

0-8179-3948-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GregoryPaul R

LazarevV. V (Valeriĭ Vasilʹevich)

Disciplina

331.11/73

Soggetti

Forced labor - Economic aspects - Soviet Union

Industrialization - Soviet Union

Prison industries - Economic aspects - Soviet Union

Soviet Union Economic conditions

Soviet Union Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword  -  Robert Conquest; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1.  An Introduction to the Economics of the Gulag  - Paul Gregory; 2.  Forced Labor in Soviet Industry: The End of the 1930's to the Mid-1950's: An Overview  - Andrei Sokolov; 3.  The Economy of the OGPU, NKVD, and MVDof the USSR, 1930-1953: The Scale, Structure,and Trends of Development  - Oleg Khlevnyuk; 4.  The End of the Gulag  - Aleksei Tikhonov; 5.  Coercion versus Motivation:Forced Labor in Norilsk  - Leonid Borodkin and Simon Ertz

6.  Magadan and the Economic History of Dalstroi in the 1930's  - David Nordlander 7.  Building Norilsk  - Simon Ertz; 8.  The White Sea-Baltic Canal  - Mikhail Morukov; 9.  The Gulag in Karelia: 1929 to 1941  - Christopher Joyce; 10.  Conclusions  - Valery Lazarev; List of Acronyms; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack



of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies.