im doing a speech for history on the soviet gulags and we need a visual aid and i was think of a graph
2007-01-16 12:15:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Current estimates from Russian and Ukrainian historians estimate about 20 million pre-war. Another 10 million in the war years, and immediately post-war. The previous answer of 50 million is pretty accurate.
You might wish to mention that the political left in the West refused to believe these numbers, well into the 1960s.
2007-01-16 12:31:51 · answer #1 · answered by jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
millions. Maybe Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History has a graph. Othe than that, I hope your class read Gulag Archipelago or at least One Life in the Day of Ivan Denisovich. Those'll get people's mind going about the gulag
2007-01-16 20:59:20 · answer #2 · answered by John D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am no historian, but I hope you have read something of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book:
The Gulag Archipelago.
Why the cutoff at the end of WWII, as I understand it, many German solders ended up there after the war and never came back and the thing was still in operation into the 1950's.
2007-01-16 20:32:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An estimated 50m in the years 1930-1950,
2007-01-16 20:23:00 · answer #4 · answered by ahab 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋