К вопросу о женском контингенте в лагерях ГУЛАГа в 1930-х — начале 1950-х гг.: беременные женщины, численность и условия их содержания

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the female contingent in the Gulag correctional labour camps, focusing on the number and conditions of detention of pregnant women in the 1930s until the 1953 amnesty of prisoners. The work conducts a comparative analysis of the total number of female prisoners and pregnant women in the Gulag and Karlag camps based on available archival statistical data. The article is based on materials from the State Archives of the Russian Federation (fund R-9414 — Main Directorate of Places of Imprisonment (Gulag) of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (1930-1960)), the Archive of the Committee for Legal Statistics and Special Records of the General Prosecutor’s Office for the Karaganda Region (fund 16 — Karaganda Correctional Labour Camp (Karlag)) and published sources on the history of the Gulag. These are mainly documents of a directive, administrative, reporting, and reference nature from the records of the Gulag and its departments, in particular the sanitary department. Taken together, all these documents characterise the quantitative and qualitative parameters of the process of the stay of the female contingent as a whole and pregnant women in the CLC.