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- Title
EXITING THE GULAG AFTER WAR: WOMEN, INVALIDS, AND THE FAMILY.
- Authors
ALEXOPOULOS, GOLFO
- Abstract
The article discusses the way in which family hardship considerations impacted the Soviet government's decision to grant amnesty and clemency to certain prisoners within the Soviet Union's (USSR's) Gulag labor camp system during and after World War II. The author argues that prisoners were often released so as not to adversely affect social support networks deemed essential to the strength of the Soviet Union. Particular focus is given to the early release of invalids, pregnant women, and women with young children, along with the work of Nikolai M. Shvernik, chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, which was responsible for granting amnesty.
- Subjects
GULAG (Soviet Union); AMNESTY; SOVIET social conditions; CLEMENCY; SOCIAL support; WOMEN prisoners; INVALIDS; PREGNANT women; SOCIAL networks; LABOR camps; SOVIET Union. Verkhovnyi Sovet; SHVERNIK, N. M. (Nikolai Mikhailovich), 1888-1970; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Gulag Studies, 2011, Vol 4, p1
- ISSN
1947-9948
- Publication type
Article