Author of quotes: Collective labor

This collective work is devoted to little-studied issues of the ecology of forced labor used in the Gulag in the 1930s-1950s. The authors (historians from Russia, Great Britain, Germany and the Usa) base their research on large amounts of documents from the previously secret archival funds of soviet punitive agencies - the OGPU, the NKVD, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. The first part deals with the general issues of forced labor in the USSR in the 1930s - 1950s, the scale and structure of the camp economy, the evolution of its management system. The special methods of combining coercion and stimulation of labor of the gulag prisoners are shown, the phenomenon of corruption in the system of camps is considered. In the second part of the book, the economics of the Gulag are explored in regional and sectoral dimensions. Here, the focus is on the use of forced labor in those areas of the country where the Gulag workforce played the most important role (in the Far East, in the Arctic, in Karelia, as well as in Siberia and the Urals). The authors examine the organization of forced labor, its productivity and the degree of efficiency on the archival material of the largest objects of the Gulag, including the White Sea Canal, the Norilsk Nickel Committee, Dalstroy (magadan's gold mines), as well as in the rural economy and logging operations. Archival data on the work of prisoners of war and special settlers are also involved.