The Gulag Doctors Geophysics Drawing on more than forty

Drawing on more than forty years of research into primary and secondary sources

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The Gulag Doctors Geophysics Drawing on more than fortyA pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulagshowing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal industrial empire. Many inmates, not reaching their quotas, succumbed to exhaustion, emaciation,