ABSTRACT
Among the prisoners in the camps were peasants who had resisted collectivization, soviet citizens who had lived abroad for any length of time (esp. Jews), foreign communists who had sought refuge in Moscow, inhabitants of the border lands (eg Poles, Koreans, Chinese), religious groups, state officials suspected of "sabotage", artists, writers, university lecturers, and leaders of minority groups (eg Mongols, Uzbeks, Georgians). All were put to work in different ways- railway building, tree felling, coal and gold mining, light industry and agriculture
