Map of Concentration Camps in Soviet Russia
- Title:
- Map of Concentration Camps in Soviet Russia
- Alternate Title:
- Concentration Camps in Soviet Russia
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Mora, Sylwester (S. Starzewski)
Zwierniak, Piotr (Kazimierz Zamorski)
- Date:
- 1945
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1330.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1330_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Work Type:
- maps
- Materials/Techniques:
- printing
- Subject:
- Communism & Cold War
Pictorial
Unusual Graphics/Text - Measurement:
- 33 x 59 on sheet 50 x 70 (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 is the first appearance of a cold war map of Soviet concentration camps. It purports to show the various concentration camp systems, occupying fully half the territory of the Soviet Union. Text on the right of the map explains the organization of the camps and says that it was drawn from "original soviet documents and written statements from former prisoners." It explains that there are additional camps not shown on the map for want of adequate information. At the top of the map are photographs of "soviet documents from the camp authorities." Below the map are details about the particular industries and activities of individual camps and systems.
The map was produced by "by two Polish military offıcers, Sylvester Mora and Pierre Zwierniak" in "one of the fırst books to bring in fırst hand accounts by prisoners and to feature some of the fırst attempts at quantifying slave labor." (Barney 2013, 346). The book was Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka, published in Rome in 1945, also published as La Justice Sovietique and Giustizia Sovietica. Mora and Zwierniak were pseudonyms for S. Starzewski and Kazimierz Zamorski (Applebaum 2003, 649.) At points in the text, the translation into English is rough.
For the next step in the evolution of this map, see ID #1337 "'Gulag' - Slavery, Inc. 1947.
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:
- Mora, Sylwester & Piotr Zwierniak. 1945. Sprawiedliwość Sowiecka [Soviet Justice]. Rome: Wlochy.
- 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.