Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Solovki prison camp (1923–39)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Solovki”
1923–1939 — The monastery islands of the White Sea became the first great Soviet camp. Here the prisoner-turned-manager Naftaly Frenkel is credited with feeding prisoners according to their output, the principle the Gulag later applied everywhere.
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- Gulag forced-labour camps (chapter 5 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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