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In letters from Stalin's labor camps, a window into Soviet political oppression

  • Written by Emily Johnson, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Oklahoma
imageOver a period of 30 years, millions of criminals and political prisoners were sent to Soviet labor camps.Wikimedia Commons

In 2011, I was at the Hoover Institution Archives sifting through the papers of the Latvian poet and journalist Arsenii Formakov (1900-1983) when I noticed a folder of letters encased in clear plastic.

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