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Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir (Russian: Гулаг Босс: советские мемуары) (2011) is a memoir written by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (1918 - 1999), a Soviet Engineer and eventual Head of numerous Gulag camps in Pechorlag, Pechora. Under the orders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1940, Mochulsky describes overseeing the construction of a 500km long rail line from the Pechorlag camp that bordered the Arctic Circle, to central Russia, connecting "remote Pechora Camps to the outside world". The text was published posthumously by the Oxford University Press in 2011. The publication is introduced as well as translated and edited by sociology scholar, Deborah A. Kaple.

Background
Gulags (Russian: ГУЛаг, acronym of Main Administration of Camps) were concentration camps operated officially under the Soviet Union from April 25, 1930 until they were abolished by an MVD order in January 25, 1960; although, unofficially, political and criminal prisoners continued to endure forced labour internment until the late 1980's. Originally founded by Vladimir Lenin's administration, the Gulag system continued to expand and reach its peak during Stalin's rule from the 1930's to the 1950's.

Overview
Mochulsky attended school in Minsk throughout the 1930's before graduating as an Engineer from a Moscow-based Railroad Transport Engineering Institute in 1940. Within the same year, 22 year old Mochulsky was Ordered by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to work as a foreman at a Gulag camp, known as Pechorlag, bordering the Arctic Circle. Mochulsky's primary task was to manage the construction of the 500km railway line over Russia's permafrost.

Civilians were able to occupy only two jobs at the Pechorlag camp; foreman and head of the camp unit. Mochulsky originally began working as camp foreman, before quickly assuming the role as boss of the camp unit as well. Mochulsky moved between different camp units during his time at the Pechorlag, each time acquiring the role as both foreman and camp unit boss, oftentimes because the camps did not have a pre-existing administrative head(s). After being assigned to his second Pechorlag camp, Mucholsky was

Characters
Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky