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Forced labor in the Soviet Union

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The following closely related categories of forced labor in the Soviet Union may be distinguished.

  • Pre-Gulag forced labor of the early Soviet Russia and Soviet Union
  • The Gulag system,
  • The kolkhoz system
  • The Stroybat (construction battalions) system,
  • Foreign forced labor in the Soviet Union of 1939-1954 which included forced labor of World War II prisoners of war and internees.
  • Post-Joseph Stalin penal labor in the Soviet Union: Corrective labor colony (Исправительно-трудовая колония, ИТК), Colony-settlement (Колония-поселение), corrective labor without incarceration (Исправительные работы без лишения свободы).

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