Gulag town, company town : forced labor and its legacy in Vorkuta /

"The notorious Soviet Gulag gets a radical reinterpretation in this remarkable work of cutting-edge history. By examining the history of Vorkuta, an Arctic coal-mining outpost established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex, Alan Barenberg's insightful study tests the idea that the Gulag...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barenberg, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
Series:Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
Subjects:
Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp) > History.
Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp)
Forced labor > Soviet Union > History.
Labor camps > Soviet Union > History.
Prisons > Soviet Union > History.
Coal mines and mining > Soviet Union > History.
Travail forcé > URSS > Histoire.
Abris pour travailleurs > URSS > Histoire.
Prisons > URSS > Histoire.
Charbon > Mines et extraction > URSS > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Coal mines and mining
Forced labor
Labor camps
Manners and customs
Prisons
Vorkuta (Komi, Russia) > History.
Vorkuta (Komi, Russia) > Social life and customs.
Russia (Federation) > Vorkuta (Komi)
Soviet Union
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • From the margins to the home front: Vorkuta as an outpost
  • Saving Leningrad, defining Vorkuta: a camp and a city at war
  • In search of "normalcy": Vorkuta during postwar Stalinism
  • Vorkuta in crisis: reform and its consequences
  • The "second birth" of Vorkuta: forging the company town
  • From prisoners to citizens? Ex-prisoners and the transformation of Vorkuta
  • Epilogue.

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