Stalin

Stalin The idea of forced labor is not something that was a new concept of the twentieth century. These camps were also not a revolutionary act, and had been instituted in Russia during the time of the Czars. It was not uncommon for people to be displaced and thus moved to Siberia or other lands to work for the gains of the state. One example of this was in Czar Peter’s use of serf and convict labor for his government-owned plants and construction projects. The polictical enemies of the Bolshevics had also been imprisioned in labor camps by the command of Lenin, soon after the revolution of 1917. These camps were designed to punish people for their crimes while also helping the state. When one thinks about it, this sounds like a good idea for the punishment of criminals, to have them serve their time by providing labor for the state. Yet the gulags of the Stalinist Russia had many problems. For one they became overpopulated, and thus there was a need to build more prisons, yet with the increase of prisoners being shipped to these gulags there was also the issue of stalin, one, people, yet, work, labor, gulags, thus, state, prisoners, party, been, nkvd, hard, camps, way, uncommon, though, soviet, good, camp, accused, about, workers, times, time, sentenced, russia, out, members, keep, just, guards, felt, example