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Memories
1959
1986
Karel Goliath-Gorovsky, Zapisky ze stalinskych koncentraku: vyber ze vzpominek a studii. Koln: Index, 1986
Studies
1935
The White Sea canal; being an account of the construction of the new canal between the White Sea and the Baltic Sea. / Ed. by M. Gorky, L. Auerbach, S. G. Firin. London: John Lane, 1935
1948
David J. Dallin; Boris I. Nicolaevsky. Forced labour in Soviet Russia. London: Hollis & Carter, 1948
1949
Slave labor in Russia; the case presented by the American Federation of Labor to the United Nations. / American Federation of Labor. Washington, 1949
1953
News From Behind the Iron Curtain is published monthly by the Research and Publication Service, National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc., New York
1955
Forced Labor Camps in the "Peoples Democracies". Editor Richard K. Carlton. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1955
Research and analysis by Andrew G.Caranfil, Jan Hajdukewitcz, Jaromir Ledecky, Fred S. Pisky, L.A.D. Dellin, Dragos D. Kostich; Legal material supplied by the Mid-European Law Project of the Library of Congress. Based on the Statement on Forced Labor by the International League for the Rights of Man to Secretary General of the United Nations under Economic and Social Council resolution 524 (XVII) of April 27, 1954, New York, March 28, 1955
1956
500 Ukrainian marytred women. / ed. by Stephania Halychyn. New York: United Ukrainian Womens Organizations of America, 1956
1962
Volodymyr Kosyk, Concentration camps in the USSR. London: Ukrainian Publishers, 1962
1963
1967
James Bunyan. The origin of forced labor in the Soviet state 1917-1821: Documents and materials. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1967
1968
Martha Chyz, Woman and child in the modern system of slavery - U. S. S. R. Translated from the Ukrainian by Olha Prychodko. Toronto:SUZERO; New York: DOBRUS, 1962
Robert Conquest.The great terror: Stalins purge of the thirties. London: Macmillan, 1968
Examines background to Stalins reign of terror with particular reference to Kirov murder and purges of Old Bolsheviks. Includes chapter on labour camps.
1973
For this was I born: the human conditions in USSR slave labor camps: photographs, testimonies, petitions, letters and other documents. / compiled and edited by Yuri R. Shymko. Toronto, Canada: UCRAINCA Research Institute, 1973
Peter Reddaway, The forced labour camps in the U. S. S. R. today; an unrecognized example of modern inhumanity. Bruxelles: International Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in the U. S. S. R., [ 1973?]
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws. U. S. S. R. labor camps. Hearings,
1977
Letters from Russian prisons: consisting of reprints of documents be political prisoners in Soviet prisons, prison camps, and exile, and reprints of affidavits concerning political persecution in Soviet Russia, official statements by Soviet authorities, excerpts from Soviet laws pertaining to civil liber ties, and other documents: with introductory letters by twentytwo well/known European and American authors / International Committee for Political Prisoners; edited by Alexander Berkman. Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, 1977
1978
Robert Conquest. Kolyma: the Arctic death camps. London: Macmillan, 1978
1980
Avraam Shifrin, The first guidebook to prisons and concentration camps of the Soviet Union. Uhldingen, Switzerland: Stephanus Edition, 1980
Libushe Zorin, Soviet prisons and concentration camps: an annotated bibliography, 1917-1980. Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1980
1984
Wladyslaw John Cieslewicz. History of Russian gold mining through 1965. Golden, Colorado, 1984
1993
Michael Jakobson, Origins of the gulag: the Soviet prison camp system, 1917-1934. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1993
1994
Edwin Bacon, The Gulag at war: Stalins forced labour system in the light of the archives. New York: New York University Press, 1994
1995
Elena Bondarenko. Exploitation of Japanese POW labour in the USSR. In: Far Eatern Affairs, 1995. No. 1. pp. 72-85
Outlines events leading to capture of large numbers of Japanese soldiers in 1945-1946 by Soviet troops. Contrary to Potsdam Declaration they were sent as forced labour workers to Russian Far East. Describes type of work they carried out, their pay and living conditions.
1996
L. L. Kerber, Stalins aviation gulag: a memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the purge era. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996
1997
Revaluatins from the Russian Archives. Documents in English Translation edited by Diane P. Koenker and Ronald D. Bachman. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997
1999
Dariusz Tolczyk, See no evil: literary cover-ups and discoveries of the Soviet camp experience. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 Labor camps in the Russian literature.
2003 Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History. 720 pages, Doubleday; 1st edition April 15, 2003 ISBN: 0767900561
Memoires
1957
Josef Martin Bauer. As far as my feet will carry me. / Translated from the German by Lawrence Wilson. London: Andre Deutsch, 1957
Escape of German prisoner of war from forced labour camp on Bering Strait across Siberia to Iran, 1949-1952.
1971
Andrei Amalrik. Involuntary journey to Siberia. Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1971
Abridged translation of Nezhelannoe puteshestvie v Sibir. Author was exiled to Siberia. Describes his life there and reports on collective farms. Most of his time was spent in Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Krivosheino.
1976
Account of autors experiences in Vorkuta labour camp complex in Soviet Arctic, 1945-1953, and later in other camps in Siberia.
1994
1996
Isaac J. Vogelfanger, Red tempest: the life of a surgeon in the Gulag. Montreal; Buffalo: McGill-Queens University Press, 1996
1997
Memoires
1974
Studies
1951
Les conditions de la liberte en U. S. S. S.; le role de la decision administrative dans la procedure sovietique. / International Commission against Concentration Camp Practices. Paris: Editions du Pavois, 1951
Livre blanc sur les camps de concentration sovietiques. / International Commission against Concentration Camp Practices. Paris: La Pavois, 1951
Based on action for libel by David Rousset against Claude Morgan, Pierre Daix and the Lettres Francaises.
1959
Paul Barton (pseud.), Linstitution concentrationnaire en Russie (19301957) par Paul Barton que precede le sens de notre combat, par David Rousset. Paris: Plon, 1959
Analyses administrative system of Soviet concentration camps, its economic and social roles, its forced labour system. Publication was made under auspices of International Commission against Concentration Camp Practices. Appendices include documents relating to rules and regulations of Ukhta-Pechora camp.
1960
Les camps de concentration en U. R. S. S.: pourquoi et pour qui existentils? / Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. Taipei: Mission du Bloc antibolchevique des nations, 1960
1974
Mikhail Geller, Le monde concentrationnaire et la litterature sovietique. Lausanne: Editions LAge dhomme, 1974
1975
Andre Glucksmann, La cuisiniere et le mangeur fhommes: essai sur les rapports entre lEtat, le marxisme et les camps de concentration. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1975
1984
1991
Pierre Rigoulot, Les paupieres lourdes: les Francais face au Gulag: aveuglements et indignations. Paris: Editions universitaires, 1991
Memoires
1982
Ivan Lukianovich Solonevich, Barbeles rouges (Rossia v kontzlagere) Trois Russes sevadent des bagnes sovietiques; adapte du russe par Pierre Bregy et P.-A. Cousteau. Paris: Les Editions de France, 1938
Published in German by Verlag fur Ganzheitliche Forschung and Kultur, Wobbenbull, in 1982-85.
Studies
1949
Sklavenarbeit in Russland; der Amerikanische Gewerkschaftbund (American Federation of Labor) legt den Vereinten Nationen das Ergebnis seiner Ermittlungen zu dieser Frage for. / American Federation of Labor. n. p., 1949
1958
Aurel von Juchen, Was die Hunde heulen; die sowjetische Wirklichkeit von unten betrachtet. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1958
1960
Gerhard Finn, Die politischen Haftlinge der Sowjetzone, 1945-1959. Pfaffenhofen: Ilmgauverlag, 1960
1965
Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des zweiten Weltkrieges. 15 vols. Munich: Verlag Ernst & Wener Gieseking Bielefeld, 1965-1967
With unique materials from former German POWs in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s.
1979
Rolf Hinze, Plenni dawai: Nachkriegsdrama hinter Stacheldraht: ein Dokumentarbericht. 3. uberarbeitete Aufl. Preuss. Oldendorf: Schutz, 1979
1994
Meinhard Stark, Deutsche Frauen des GULag: eine lebens- und zeitgeschichtliche Befragung. Berlin, 1994
Doctoral thesis at Humboldt-Universita t zu Berlin, 1994. Interviews with women political prisoners.
1996
Freya Klier, Verschleppt ans Ende der Welt: Schicksale deutscher Frauen in sowjetischen Arbeitslagern. Berlin: Ullstein, 1996
Ralf Stettner, Archipel GULag: Stalins Zwangslager- Terrorinstrument und Wirtschaftsgigant: Entstehung, Organisation und Funktion des sowjetischen Lagersystems 1928-1956. Paderborn: Schoningh, 1996
Memoires
1936
Alexandra Anzerowa. Aus dem Lande der Stummen. Breslau: Bergstadtverlag, 1936
1962
Maximilien de Santerre, Ihr name ist Legion; zwolf Jahre unter Berufsverbrechern in der Sowjetunion. Munchen: J. Pfeiffer, 1962
1988
Viktor Sturmer, Zh. 895: im Straflager zwischen Eismer und Baikalsee. Berlin: Westkreuz-Verlag, 1988
1997
Memoires
1959
Zalman Kaplan, Hinter di kratn in Ratnfarband. Tel Aviv, Farlag "LebnsFragn", 1959
S. S. Ron, Me-ever mi-sham: pirke teur ve-hagut shel asir mi-mahanehhesger me-ever le-masakh ha-barzel. Jerusalem: Mosad Byalik, 1959
S. Shabath, Be-mahanot ha-tsafon: korotav shel asir Tsiyon me-ahore Masakh ha-barzel. Jerusalem: R. Mas, 1959
"In the camps of the north; the happenings of a prisoner in the Sowiet far north camps."
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In Hungarian
Studies
Memoires
1989
Kemenyfi Bela. Magyar leventek a sarkkoron tulE Az AR87-es emlekeibol. BudapestE Magveto, 1989
1995
Bordi Imre, A Gulag rabja voltam. Szekesfehervar: Tortenelembaratok Kore Alapitvany Szabadmuvelodes Haza, 1995
1997
Veress Jozsef, Rabszolgak voltunk egy Elhurcolas-sal vegzodo Hadifogsag tortenete az elo naptol az utolsoig. Mateszalka: Veress Jozsef, 1997
1998
Bien Gyorgy Zoltan, Elveszett evek: egy magyar diak raboskodasa a Gulag kelet-sziberiai lagereiben; Kolima 1945-1955. Budapest: Gondos, 1998
1999
R zs s J nos. Keseru Ifj s g. lteto Rem nys g. Szovjet Fogs gom Napl ja. Bitter Youth. Life Giving Hope. Third edition. Budapest: P ski, 1999
Studies
1974
Ervins Kurzemnieks, Divdesmita gadsimta verdziba PSRS. Grand Haven, Mich.: Raven Printing, 1974
1990
Janis Barkans, O. C.-78: soda nometnu un cietumu gusta: dokumentacija. Stokholma: Latviesu nacionalais fonds, 1990
Memoires
Helena Latkovska Wojtuszkiewicz, I lived through hell on earth: sixteen years in Siberia. TRANSLATED FROM LATVIAN! Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1998
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In Lithuanian
Studies
1963
Kipras Bielinis, Teroro ir vergijos imperija Sovietu Rusija. New Yorkas: Isleista Amerikos Lietuvio Socialdemokratu Sajungos Literaturos Fondo lesomis, 1963
1993
Vladimir Nikolaevich Bulatov.Stalins politikk i Arktis. In: Ottar, 1993, 197, No. 4. pp. 23-29
The building of North-East Passage: ten of thousands killed by exhaustion, cold or disease in labour and punishment camps.
Studies
1945
Sylwester Mora (pseud. of Kazimierz Zamorski), Piotr Zwierniak. Sprawiedliwosc sowiecka. Wlochy: s. n., 1945
1992
Obozy koncentracyjne OGPU w ZSRR / red. Bernadetta Gronek, Grzegorz Jakubowski, Irena Marczak. Warszawa: Wyd. Bellona, 1992
1993
Polacy w Rosji mowia a sobie. / wybor i wstep Edward Walewander. Lublin: Red. Wydawnictw Katolickiego Uniwesytetu Lubelskiego, 1993
1995
Izabella Sariusz-Skarpska, Polscy swiadkowie Gulagu: literatura lagrowa 1939-1989. Krakow: Universitas, 1995
Memoires
1952
Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Inny swiat: zapiski sowieckie. London: William Heinemann, 1952
Published in English in 1951 in London; in Russian in 1989 by Overseas Publications Interchange, London. Translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese and Arab.
1985
1992
Stanislaw Dakiniewicz, Wiezien P 303: wspomnienia lagiernika, 19441955. Wroclaw: Polskie Tow. Ludoznawcze, 1992
1994
Walenty Woronowicz, Przypadki XX wieku: 20 lat na Wyspach Solowieckich i Kolymie, 1935-1955. Warszawa: Instytut Historii PAN, Warszawska Oficyna Wydawnicza "Gryf", 1994
Studies
1956
Viacheslav P. Artemev, Rezhim i okhrana ispravitelno-trudovykh lagerei. Munich: Institut po izucheniiu SSSR, 1956
Artemev was a deputy chief of corrective labor camps in Kazakhstan during the 1930s. Survey of labor camps from the mid-1930s to the 1950s.
1979
1987
Jacques Rossi. Spravochnik po Gulagu: istoricheskii slovar sovetskikh penitentsiarnykh institutsii i terminov, sziazannykh s prinuditelnym trudom. London: Overseas Publications Interchange, 1987
Encyclopedia dictionary of Soviet penitentiary institutions and terms related to the forced labor camp.
1991
V. M. Khlypalov.Kadry energetikov Severo-Vostoka SSSR v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (1941-1945 gg). In Kraevedcheskie Zapiski. 1991, No. 17.pp. 26-33
Gives figures comparing number of labour camp and non-camp workers, and shows importance of former camp inmates in power industry.
1993
N. F. Bugai. Konets 30-kh - 40-e gody: Evropeiskii Sever: deportatsiia narodov. In: Trudy (Institut IAzika, Literatury i Istorii.) 1993, Vol. 52. pp. 84-97
Using archival sources mainly from the archives of GULAG NKVD presents statistical information on deportation to nearly all regions of Russian European North and examines methods used by repressive organs.
1994
L. P. Rasskazov, Karatelnye organy v protsesse formirovaniia i funktsionirovaniia administrativno-komandnoi sistemy v Sovetskom gosudarstve, 1917-1941 gg. Ufa: Akademiia MVD, Ufimskaia vysshaia shkola, 1994
1995
1998
G. Ioffe; A. Nesterenko.Volchii kamen: Uranovye ostrova arkhipelaga GULAGa. Sankt-Peterburg: Peterburg-XXI vek, 1998
Memoires
1934
Belomorsko-Baltiiskii Canal. The tale of its construction, 1931-1934. M. Gorkii, L. Aberbakh, S. Firin. A reprint from the 1934 edition, Moskva, 1998.
1957
Jurij A. Treguboff, Vosem let vo vlasti Lubianki: zapiski chlena NTS. Frankfurt am Main: Posev, 1957
1974
Aleksandr Solzhenitsin. Archipelag GULag. 1918-1956, Opyt xudozhestvennogo issledovaniia.Gulag Archipelago. Paris:YMCA-Press, 1974
1989
Ivan P. Aleksakhin. Kolymskie etapy. In: Kraevedcheskie Zapiski, 1989. No. 16. pp. 108-117
Account by party worker arrested in 1937 of building labour camp 700 km north west of Magadan. Detailed description of living and working conditions of prisoners in goldmines between 1938 and 1942.
Nikolai B. Chekarev.Teatr v gody voiny. In: Kraevedcheskie Zapiski, 1989. No. 16. pp. 132-142
Bella E. Gekhtman. Eduard Petrovich Berzin. In: Kraevedcheskie Zapiski, 1989. No. 16. pp. 71-79
Reminiscences of meeting in 1930 with Berzin, prior to his appointment as head of Dalstrois gold mines and labour camps in Kolyma.
Leonid G. Kildishev. Vremia trevog i ozhidanii. Kraevedcheskie Zapiski. 1989. No. 16. pp. 95-107
Reminiscences of 14 years old who joined father working for Dalstroi in Magadan in 1936.
1990
N. I. Gagen-Torn. V ssylke na Enisee. In: Sovetskaia Etnografiia, 1990. No. 3. pp. 97-113
Extract from diary of distinguished Soviet etnographer who passed through Kolyma camps (arrested in 1936, finally released and rehabilitated in 1956).
1991
1992
Aleksandra S. Bertsinskaia. "Neotoshedshie trotskisty". In: Kraevedcheskie Zapiski, 1992. No. 18. pp. 32-41
Memoirs of old Bolsheviks, arrested in 1928, 1936 and 1948, and sentenced to hard labour in Kolyma gold mines and collective farms.
A. F. Gudimenko. Za reisom reis. In: Kraevedcheskie Zapiski, 1992. No. 18. pp. 15-22
Memoirs of truck driver, describing forced labour camps in Kolyma from 1933-1935, and after release working as stakhanovite for Magadan motortransport depot from 1935-1945.
Sergei P. De-Martino. Ispoved s rsshitym rtom. In: Kraevedcheskie Zapiski, 1992. No. 18. pp. 93-101
Memoirs of a man sentenced to death at age 20, then reprieved to 10 years hard labour. Describes arrival in Magadan camp in 1947 and conflict with guards leading to solitary confinement.
N. G. Dudka. Avtobaza Tatura. In: Kraevedcheskie Zapiski, 1992. No. 18. pp. 53-58
Memoirs of schoolteacher sentenced in 1938, describing work conditions in mines and at depot in Kolyma.
Krasnyi slon na Belom more. / Ed, byIU. Brodskii. In: Severnye Prostory, 1992. No. 5-6. pp. 23-27
Piat let na Kolyme. . In: Kraevedcheskie Zapiski, 1992. No. 18. pp. 2331
Memoirs of civil engineer working in Kolyma from 1934-1939. Describes construction of first roads and towns. Includes encounters with labour camps and prisoners before and after his own arrest in 1938.
1993
Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev, Stati rannikh let. Tver: Tverskoe oblastnoe otdelenie Rossiiskogo fonda kultury, 1993
1994
Petr Alekhin. Golubaia os. In: Severnye Prostory, 1994, No. 1. pp. 48-53
Reminiscences of captain of Enisei riverboat about 60 years on the river. Includes comments on transport of prisoners from 1940s onwards, growth and decline of settlements and exploitation of resources, river transport.
IUrii Dombrovskii. Do smerti byl odin progon. In: Svernye Prostory, 1994, No. 2. pp. 44-45
1998
Anatolii IAmpolskii, GULAG 80-kh: rasskazy a perezhitom. Ivanovo: Izdatelstvo "Ivanovo", 1998
Fiction
1997
IU. L. Fidelgolts, Kolyma: fragment povesti "Venets iz koliuchei provoloki". Moskva: "Zvenia", 1997
Studies
1954
Kazimieras Cibiras, El imperio del genocidio; las deportaciones y la escavitud en el mundo sovietico. Medellin, Columbia: Impresos Internacionales, 1954
Memoirs
1949
Antoni Ekart. Direkt fran Ryssland; sanningen om de "sparlost forsvunna". Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1949
Authors experienses in Soviet prisons and camps during WWII. Translated from original Polish manuscript.
Studies
1981
Ukrainski politviazni v SRSR: adresnyi pokazhchyk: za stanom na hruden 1981 roku / uporiadkuvala Marta Harasovska. Toronto; Baltymor: Ukr. vyd-vo "Smoloskyp" im. V. Symonenka, 1981
Memoires
Fiction
Ivan Bahrianyi, Tyhrolovy: roman; Ohnenne kolo: povist. Kyiv: "Ukrainskyi pysmennyk", 1996
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Solovki Documentary film Solovki (Solovki-Solovets Special camps), produced by Sovkino, 1928, director A.A. Cherkasov. An official propaganda film about labor camps. HU OSA 317-t70-0-1 The White Sea Canal
Documentary film The White Sea Canal (Belomorsko-Baltiiskii Vodnyi Put') produced by Vostokfilm, 1936, director Aleksandr Lemerg. An official propaganda film about the construction of the White Sea Canal. HU OSA 317-t70-0-1