There are two periods of the existence of labor armies:
- the first period, the labor army of 1920-1921 , the actual labor army in Soviet historiography.
- the second period, labor armies of 1942-1946 , officially considered part of the NKVD , and later republican and regional MVD .
See also
- War communism
- Labor service
- Rear militia
- Warsaw Defense Work Team
- Leningrad army of the national militia
- Gulag