PERYFERYJNE ZJAWISKA GOSPODARCZE A EWOLUUJĄCY SYSTEM ŚWIATOWY. PRÓBA PORÓWNANIA GEOPOLITYCZNEGO ZNACZENIA SOWIECKIEGO GÓRNICTWA ARCHIPELAGU GUŁAG I PÓŁNOCNOAMERYKAŃSKICH GORĄCZEK ZŁOTA
PERIPHERAL ECONOMIC PHENOMENA AND EVOLVING WORLD SYSTEM. AN ATTEMPT AT A COMPARISON OF GEOPOLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE SOVIET GULAG ARCHIPELAGO MINING AND THE NORTH AMERICAN GOLD RUSHES

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at a comparison of two mining phenomena: North American Gold rushes and mining of the Soviet Gulag labour camps. Both of them were a from of the peripheral mining and the European civilization expansion towards undeveloped areas. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zeland. Some of the Gulag camps were positioned in the remote areas of northeastern Siberia. In spite of all the differences between them, there existed many similarities which concerned both irrational and rational features of these phenomena.

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