Actually, the Soviet Gulag was mostly about slave labour - they arrested people to make them slaves because they thought this would be efficient - which it wasn&#x27;t.<p>If they thought you really were a threat you were executed rather than being sent to a camp.<p>I can recommend Anne Applebaum&#x27;s book:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anneapplebaum.com&#x2F;gulag-a-history&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anneapplebaum.com&#x2F;gulag-a-history&#x2F;</a>