Map of the U.S.S.R. Concentration camps, prisons and psychiatric prisons
- Title:
- Map of the U.S.S.R. Concentration camps, prisons and psychiatric prisons
- Alternate Title:
- USSR Concentration Camps & Prisons
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Shifrin, Avraam
- Date:
- 1982
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1390.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1390_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Communism & Cold War
- Measurement:
- 31 x 41 (sheet) (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- Maps of the Soviet forced labor camps, the “Gulag,” are some of the most dramatic and best-known Western propaganda images of the Cold War, among “the most widely-circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature.” Barney 2015, 120; see generally ibid. 117-133. The collection includes a number of these, from 1945 to 1982; see Subjects > Communism & Cold War.
This large fold-out map is a successor to those earlier versions. It appears in a 1982 "Guidebook" providing extensive details about Soviet detention facilities of all kinds. Each location is numbered and identified, with supporting material in the Guidebook. The point of the map is not the specific location of any camp
indeed, the scale of the map and the size of the dots would make it virtually impossible to use for that purpose.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Shifrin, Avraham. 1982. The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union. New York: Bantam Books.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.