ABSTRACT
The Solovki typhus epidemic demonstrated the inadvisability of holding a great number of convicts on a remote island. Frenkel managed to prove how unproductively they were utilized, how the inept, obtuse camp authorities were destroying 'manpower in pointless, antiquated ways, by exhaustion, starvation, and exposure. Probably the Solovetsky journalists were assigned the task of upholding the camp's honour. Responding to a French assertion that 'solovki is a deadly place for the convicts held there, Shiriayev- Akarevich wrote the pamphlet The Cheka's Bloody Atrocities (Deadly Solovki). The New Solovki perpetuated the image of the SLON slaves: about the beginning of May, batch after batch, filthy, faces raw from smoke and wind, lips all chapped, sloshing in their boots through melting snow for 80-100 km, the foresters come back from winter work (NS, 1926, no. 18). And on 12 December 1926, with its 50th issue, The New Solovki comes to an end.
