Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
ALZhIR women’s camp (1938–53)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “ALZhIR”
1938–1953 — Near Akmolinsk, the “Akmolinsk Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland” held thousands of women whose offence was marriage to men arrested in the Terror; their children went to orphanages. A memorial museum opened on the site in 2007.
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- Women and daily life under Stalin (chapter 9 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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