Véronique Soulé, « Les passeports intérieurs russes embarrassent Moscou. Les communistes réclament le rétablissement de la « nationalité » », Libération, (lire en ligne)..
Richard Aldous et Stephen Kotkin, « Terrible Talent: Studying Stalin », sur The American Interest, : « There is a story about how Stalin blocked peasants' movement from the regions of starvation to the areas where there might have been more food. [...] The regime's motivation for this was to prevent the spread of disease that accompanied the famine that the regime caused, however unintentionally. »
