The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag
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The word Gulag is an acronym for the Russian for main camp administration. It also has come to signify the system of Soviet slave labor itself. From 1929 when the Gulag began its major expansion until 1953, some 18 million people passed through it. Another 6 million were sent into exile, deported to the Kazakh deserts or the Siberian forests.
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