TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bell,Wilson T.
TI  - Stalin's Gulag at War: Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War 
SN  - 9781487504083
U1  - 940.531747 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Forced labor
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Political persecution
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Conscript labor
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, Soviet
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Gulag
KW  - Stalin
KW  - Stalinism
KW  - World War II
KW  - camps
KW  - concentration
KW  - forced labour
KW  - prison
KW  - prisons
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Stalin's Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. Far from Moscow, Western Siberia was a key area for evacuated factories and for production in support of the war effort. Wilson T. Bell explores a diverse array of issues, including mass death, informal practices such as black markets, and the responses of prisoners and personnel to the war. The region's camps were never prioritized, and faced a constant struggle to mobilize for the war. Prisoners in these camps, however, engaged in such activities as sewing Red Army uniforms, manufacturing artillery shells, and constructing and working in major defense factories. The myriad responses of prisoners and personnel to the war reveal the Gulag as a complex system, but one that was closely tied to the local, regional, and national war effort, to the point where prisoners and non-prisoners frequently interacted. At non-priority camps, moreover, the area's many forced labour camps and colonies saw catastrophic death rates, often far exceeding official Gulag averages. Ultimately, prisoners played a tangible role in Soviet victory, but the cost was incredibly high, both in terms of the health and lives of the prisoners themselves, and in terms of Stalin's commitment to total, often violent, mobilization to achieve the goals of the Soviet state
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ER  -