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"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."--

Concentration camps --- Concentration camps. --- Forced labor --- Forced labor. --- Political persecution --- Political persecution. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History --- History --- History --- Conscript labor --- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet. --- Stalin, Joseph, --- Stalin, Joseph, --- Stalin, Joseph, --- GULag NKVD. --- GULag NKVD. --- GULag NKVD. --- World War (1939-1945). --- 1900-1999. --- Soviet Union --- Soviet Union. --- History

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Concentration camps --- Forced labor --- Political prisoners --- Prisoners --- Prisons --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU --- GULag NKVD --- Soviet Union

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After 1945, the Soviet secret services made a significant contribution to the formation of the GDR along Soviet lines. Mass arrests and ""purges"" accompanied the activities of the military branches of the NKVD-MVD and MGB. This source work, opening with a well-researched introduction to the historical context, is the first in the German language to examine the role of the Soviet secret police in the Soviet occupied zone and subsequently the GDR. Documented are the NKVD-MGB's formation, field of activity and daily routines.

Espionage, Soviet. --- Military intelligence -- Soviet Union. --- Military intelligence. --- Soviet Union. --- Germany --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- Social Sciences --- History & Archaeology --- History, Modern --- Germany (East) --- Foreign relations --- History --- World history --- MWD --- MVD --- MVS --- MVS SRSR --- M.V.D. --- MVD SSSR --- M.V.D. S.S.S.R. --- Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.). --- НКВД --- NKVD --- Н.К.В.Д. --- N.K.V.D. --- НКВД СССР --- NKVD SSSR --- NKWD --- NKWD ZSRR --- НКВС --- NKVS --- Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ) --- Deutsche Demokratische Republik --- Tyske demokratiske republik --- Democratic German Republic --- German Democratic Republic --- East German Democratic Republic --- East Germany (Democratic Republic) --- DDR --- Germanskai︠a︡ Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Nĕmecká demokratická republika --- NDR --- Nimet︠s︡ʹka Demokratychna Respublika --- GDR --- Niemiecka Republika Demokratyczna --- NRD --- Német Demokratikus Köztársaság --- NDK --- Tyska demokratiska republiken --- Östtyskland --- Republica Democrată Germană --- Repubblica democratica tedesca --- Germany (Democratic Republic) --- D.D.R. --- N.D.R. --- G.D.R. --- N.R.D. --- N.D.K. --- República Democrática Alemana --- RDA --- R.D.A. --- Ostdeutschland --- Eastern Germany --- Cộng hòa dân chủ Đức --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West)