I recently got done reading Solzhenitsin's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It gives a pretty straightforward description of the life of a man in the gulag, but what about women?
What sort of labour was expected of women in the prison system? Were they extended more generous treatment? Were they subject to sexual violence and exploitation? Did they receive different regard from the Soviet justice system than did men?
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Were they subject to sexual violence and exploitation?
In the "Kolyma Tram" Yelena Glinka she describes how three newly arrived women, from those convicted to 25 years or more for high treason, are prostituted to a crowd of local fishermen, miners and geologists. It is called "getting hit by a streetcar" because of how the Johns would stand in line; depending on the length of the line the streetcar would be called light or heavy.
The youngest of them, a student, is granted protection since she's picked by the camp authorities for themselves.
Yelena Glinka was convicted to 25 years in 1950 while she was studying naval engineering. Reason was in her CV she omitted living under nazi occupation.