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Magadan and the Economic History of Dalstroi in the 1930s

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Topic: Economic History

Sort Desciption: background on the economic history of Dalstroi. This penal agency ..... See Alec Nove An Economic History of the USSR 19171991 ...

Content Inside: 6 Magadan and the Economic History of Dalstroi in the 1930s David Nordlander AMONG A HOST of issues the history of the Gulag raises several interrelated political and economic ques- tions that address the essence of Stalins industrialization campaign in the 1930s. Above all the question arises of whether the labor campswerecreatedmainlyasrepositoriesforthe victimsofpolitical repressionor whetherthey servedthe larger goal of economicneces- sity in the Soviet Union. Phrased another way were the pace and scale of arrests shaped by industrial goals or were they merely a function of political interests throughout the Stalin era? The ques- tion of the economic efficiency of forced labor is also important because it addresses the productive capacity of Stalinism. An analy- sis of Dalstroi which was headquartered in the Russian Far Eastern city of Magadan is instrumental in understanding the ebb and flow and relative balance of political and economic imperatives in the 1930s. Before such an investigation however there is a need for some background on the economic history of Dalstroi. This penal agency constituted the largest entity in the entire labor camp system; its acronymDalstroistoodforFarNorthernConstruc tionTrust(Glav- noe upravlenie stroitelstvo Dalnego Severa NKVD SSSR) a euphe- Hoover Press : Gregory/Gulag DP0 HGRESG0600 rev1 mism for a ruthless organization whose wide array of functions made it the overlord in the Soviet northeast. Sandwiched between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans Dalstroi in time came to administer morethan130campfacilitiesinaterritorycover ingnearly3million square kilometers and stretching to the tip of the Bering Strait. Encompassing the northern right bank of the Lena River the Indi- girka and Kolyma Rivers the Chukotka Peninsula and a section of northern Kamchatka this region formed a landmass bigger than that of Western Europe. Dalstroi was also a favorite child of the NKVD the Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs which suc- cee ...

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