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...whole divisions of Red Army soldiers captured by the Germans in World War II and then returned to the U.S.S.R. All these, from 1918 to 1953, flowed through the ports and channels of the Gulag Archipelago, the Soviet penal state-within-a-state whose myriad prisons, interrogation centers and slave-labor camps stretched from Leningrad to Komsomolsk and variously engulfed some 60 million souls. Gulag also makes clear that Soviet justice evolved in a straight line from Lenin's suggestion that the judiciary be allowed to legalize terror into a system of extra-judicial reprisal in which police, interrogators...
...first gun salvos of Aurora" -the battle cruiser that signaled Lenin's seizure of power in October 1918. The "alma mater," as Solzhenitsyn calls it, of all subsequent forced-labor camps was established under Lenin in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the Arctic. Later, Stalin made slave labor a dominant factor in the Soviet economy...
...between the White and Baltic seas, for close examination. It was here, on a 140-mile expanse of frozen wasteland, that Stalin first tested out his grandiose program to industrialize the Soviet Union by using a cheap, mobile and inexhaustible labor force. As Solzhenitsyn explains it: "Slave labor made no demands, could be transferred anywhere at any moment, was free of family ties, had no need for housing, schools or hospitals, and sometimes not even for kitchens or lavatories. The state could obtain such manpower only by swallowing up its sons...
Dumbfoundingly, Phillips' American Negro Slavery, published in 1918, remained a dominant force in slave historiography for 30 years. Despite WPA interviews with former slaves in the 1930s and the work of a number of black historians, which went largely ignored, it was not until the period between Gunnar Myrdal's American Dilemma in 1944 and Kenneth Stampp's The Peculiar Institution (1956) that emphasis began to be placed on environment and the effects that slavery had on blacks and black culture. The stereotype of childlike, lackadaisical behavior of plantation blacks remained, though it now began...
...work for the current economy, so how could it work on information from 1860?" Sociologist Orlando Patter son questioned some of the inferences that Fogel and Engerman draw from their statistics, such as the assumption that young black girls were prudish, not promiscuous, because the average age of black slave women on having a first child...