Description:Forced labor is an essential institution of the Soviet regime and its victims are numbered in the millions. "Forced labor in Soviet Russia" is the best book published thus far from the viewpoint of authenticity, documentary evidence, method of presentation and coverage of the subject matter. The two authors explain the development and changes in the Russian criminal law, judicial procedure and the correctional or prison system. They describe the organization and location of the camps, and depict the inhumane conditions from eyewitness accounts. (Reviewed in 1948)