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The economics of forced labor : the Soviet Gulag / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev ; foreword by Robert Conquest.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forced labor--Economic aspects--Soviet Union.
- Forced labor.
- Industrialization--Soviet Union.
- Industrialization.
- Prison industries--Economic aspects--Soviet Union.
- Prison industries.
- Soviet Union--Economic conditions.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780817939434
- 0817939431
- 9780817939489
- 0817939482
- OCLC:
- 868917822
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