title: Attitude of NKVD Employees and Industrial Workers towards Prisoners of Filtration Camps (1941–1945)
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metadata.value: Latyshev, A. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-12-12T20:08:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-12-12T20:08:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Latyshev A. V. ‘Attitude of NKVD Employees and Industrial Workers towards Prisoners of Filtration Camps (1941–1945)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 3, 2019, pp. 595–608.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2019.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16830
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article examines relations between workers of the NKVD inspection and filtration camps and
  civilian workers, with Red Army servicemen who had returned from captivity and encirclement. Taking into account
  the achievements and problems in anthropological studies of penitentiary institutions, the nature of their
  interaction and the external factors influencing it are analyzed: the independence of organs filtering from the
  camp administration, the duality of the status of prisoners and their regime of detention, and the ambiguity of
  propaganda. Influence was also divided: some prisoners stood out from the mass of camp administration and
  could count on a better attitude; the appearance of “collaborators” led to greater stigmatization and to increased
  confidence in former prisoners. The closest contact was with ordinary prison guards, often recruited from those
  who had successfully passed filtration. Relations between them often were not conflicting, but mutually beneficial.
  This analysis shows the importance of factors rarely taken into account when describing jailers whose
  position is close to prisoners themselves. The command posts held in the camps could show sympathy for former
  prisoners and open hostility, which indicates the high importance of personality factors. Business leaders and
  rank-and-file workers could consider former prisoners to be future cadres and full citizens, but others showed
  neglect and aggression, to the detriment of fulfilling production plans, which shows the strong influence of propaganda.
  Thus, it is impossible to identify one main factor that determined attitude towards those who entered
  the camps. In various situations, the behavior of security guards and workers manifested both determinism in
  external conditions and free will.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was prepared within the framework of the HSE University Basic Research Program and funded by the
  Russian Academic Exellence Project “5-100”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Second World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prisoners prisoners of war
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: NKVD
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: camps
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political repressions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: forced labor
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Attitude of NKVD Employees and Industrial Workers towards Prisoners of Filtration Camps (1941–1945)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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