The Soviet Industrialization and GULAG

Authors

  • Mark Meerovich RAACS; IAAM; INRTU

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.53.1223

Keywords:

GULAG, NKVD, Supreme Council of National Economy, military-industrial complex, industrialization, collectivization, labour armies, sharashkas, economy in the USSR

Abstract

The article is based on the book by V. A. Berdinskikh and V. I. Menkovsky (Berdinskikh & Menkovsky, 2017). The repressive policy of the Soviet government toward the Soviet people is viewed in the context of the aim to form the most powerful military and industrial complex set by the party leaders under the name of “Industrialization Program”. As a state entity of the territorial and economic activity, GULAG was committed to certain production tasks, which caused the necessity to provision it with a slave “labour fund”. The prehistory of the formation of the slave labour structures in the USSR in the form of labour armies is also viewed in the article.

How to Cite

Meerovich, M. (2017). The Soviet Industrialization and GULAG. Project Baikal, 14(53), 86–90. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.53.1223

Published

2017-09-26

Issue

No. 53 (2017): cui prodest

Section

Articles

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