Forced labor as a "method of reeducation" was applied in the Solovki prison camp as early as the 1920s,Applebaum, "Gulag: A History", Chapter 3 based on Trotsky's experiments with forced labor camps for Czech war prisoners from 1918 and his proposals to introduce "compulsory labor service" voiced in Terrorism and Communism."The only way to attract the labor power necessary for our economic problems is to introduce compulsory labor service", in: These concentration camps were not identical to the Stalinist or Hitler camps, but were introduced to isolate war prisoners given the extreme historical situation following World War I.
Forced labor as a "method of reeducation" was applied in the Solovki prison camp as early as the 1920s,Applebaum, "Gulag: A History", Chapter 3 based on Trotsky's experiments with forced labor camps for Czech war prisoners from 1918 and his proposals to introduce "compulsory labor service" voiced in Terrorism and Communism."The only way to attract the labor power necessary for our economic problems is to introduce compulsory labor service", in: These concentration camps were not identical to the Stalinist or Hitler camps, but were introduced to isolate war prisoners given the extreme! historical situation following World War I.