<Tab/>From the years 1927 - 1953, the people of the Soviet Union experienced the Stalinist era. This was different, a more radical type of government than what the Russians were used to. Now dictators, such as Stalin, ran governments. Many were put into Communist labor camps, which were just like other concentration camps during their era. Throughout this paper, the reasons why the Communist labor camps were like other concentration camps will …showed first 75 words of 1516 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1516 total…prisoners would just be killed for belonging to a group that he leader, Stalin opposed of. That made the Communist concentration camps just like any other totalitarian regime because people that the authority opposed of were being punished and sent to the camp or killed. Works Cited 1.<Tab/>Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. 1963. 2.<Tab/>McKay, John P. A History of Western Society. 2003.