Comment on The 2 Simple Reasons the Soviet Union Was Doomed to FailparentComments−arethuza15yI can recommend Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum:http://www.amazon.com/Gulag-History-Anne-Applebaum/dp/076790...The Gulag was created as a terrible economic experiment - that having a large body of "free" slave labour would be good for the Soviet economy.There were huge, and often pretty pointless, projects built with slave labor and very basic tools - one example being the Baltic - White Sea Canal:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sea_%E2%80%93_Baltic_Cana...
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I can recommend Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum:
http://www.amazon.com/Gulag-History-Anne-Applebaum/dp/076790...
The Gulag was created as a terrible economic experiment - that having a large body of "free" slave labour would be good for the Soviet economy.
There were huge, and often pretty pointless, projects built with slave labor and very basic tools - one example being the Baltic - White Sea Canal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sea_%E2%80%93_Baltic_Cana...