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International Journal of Political Science and Development Vol. 2(6), pp. 140 –146, June, 2014 DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2014.030 ISSN: 2360-784X Full Length Research
The main thesis
of "Lenin's Gulag" is that the empire of concentration camps which
Solzhenitsyn labeled the "Gulag Archipelago" was the work not of
Joseph Stalin, to whom it is usually attributed, but of Lenin and
Trotsky. The first camps were established as early as 1918, during
the Civil War. They were gradually expanded until by the early
1920's they numbered in the hundreds. Initially in these camps "politicals"
were treated better than other inmates, but with time, ordinary
criminals were given authority over the "politicals." The article
stresses the role of the camps established on the Solovetskii
Islands once dominated by monasteries. The Nazis in the early 1920's
closely observed Soviet concentration camp practices with the
intention of emulating them once they came to power.
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