Living Conditions and Policing of MVD Corrective Labor Camps [translation of Russian title]
Munich: Inst for the Study of USSR, 1956. 221, wraps, figures, cover edges and spine reinforced with tape, covers somewhat discolored, a few pages somewhat darkened. Text is in Russian; short summaries of text at rear of volume in English (2-1/2 pages) and in German (3-1/2 pages). The Institute for the Study of the USSR, organized in 1950, supported a collection of emigre scientists and men and women of letters who had left the Soviet Union. Their individual and collective purpose was anti-Soviet. In addition to sponsoring publications, the Institute also sponsored conferences and gave grants to emigre scholars. This book is a study of political prisoner laborcamps run by the KGB. Condition: fair to good.
Keywords: Russian Language, German Language, KGB, Labor Camps, Secret Police, Internal Security, Political Prisoners, Human Rights, MVD
[Book #56505]
Price: $300.00