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Solovki prison camp (1923–39)

On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Solovki”

1923–1939 — The monastery islands in the White Sea became the first great Soviet camp. At Solovki, Naftaly Frenkel, a prisoner who became a manager, is credited with feeding prisoners according to their output. The Gulag later applied that principle everywhere.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Gulag forced-labour camps (chapter 5 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
Atlas
The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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Map showing Solovki prison camp (1923–39), site of memory in The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
SITE OF MEMORY · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953

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