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Gulag : Episode 1
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Over 20 million people died in the Gulags, penal camps used to establish industrialization in the Soviet Union; this series talks to both victims and perpetrators. This episode focuses on the const...
Over 20 million people died in the Gulags, penal camps used to establish industrialization in the Soviet Union; this series talks to both victims and perpetrators. This episode focuses on the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal using forced-labor during the 1930s and the prisons in St. Petersburg.
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- BBC
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- [Place of publication not identified] : BBC, [1999]
- New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2019
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 video file (59 min., 47 sec)) : sound, color
- digital
- video file
- Originally released by BBC, 1999.
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 23, 2019.
- Streaming video file.
- Closed-captioned.
- Introduction: Gulag: Episode 1 (4:23); Moscow-Volga Canal (5:25); Prison Barracks (2:31); Kulaks (2:35); Dmitrov Labor Camp (5:41); Great Achievement (3:09); Opening Ceremony (3:29); St. Petersburg, Russia (3:25); Society for Victims of Stalinism (2:49); Revisiting the Past (4:43); Secret Police Investigator (3:27); Chief Signalman (4:44); NKVD Arrest Quotas (3:21); Kresty Prison (3:05); Escaping the Soviet Union (5:57); Credits: Gulag: Episode 1 (0:54)