Huge surge in inmate numbers across this time period (jan 6, 1935 – dec 19, 1938)
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Huge surge in inmate numbers from an estimated 800,000 in 1935 to anything between 5.5 million to 9.5 million by the end of 1938 (according to Robert conquest)Large percentage of increase was due to more intelligentsia being imprisoned in the gulags
Mortality rates in Gulags were four to six times higher than those in the rest of the USSR
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Date:
jan 6, 1935
dec 19, 1938
~ 3 years and 11 months