Death and redemption : the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society / Steven A. Barnes.

Author
Barnes, Steven Anthony [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Description
x, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    This book offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. The author argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who "failed" never got out alive
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p [259] - 339) and index.
    Contents
    • The origins, functions, and institutions of the Gulag
    • Reclaiming the margins and the marginal : Gulag practices in Karaganda, 1930s
    • Categorizing prisoners : the identities of the Gulag
    • Armageddon and the Gulag, 1939-1945
    • A new circle of hell : the postwar Gulag and the rise of the special camps
    • The crash of the Gulag : releases and uprisings in the post-Stalin era.
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    ISBN
    • 9780691151083 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
    • 0691151083 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
    • 9780691151120 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
    • 0691151121 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
    LCCN
    2010047824
    OCLC
    687685337
    Hdl
    • 2027/heb.32748
    Other standard number
    • 40019295570
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