The Gulag after Stalin : redefining punishment in Khrushchev's Soviet Union, 1953-1964 /

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In The Gulag after Stalin, Jeffrey S. Hardy reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin's death. Hardy argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a humane institution that reeducated criminals...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hardy, Jeffrey S., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, > 1894-1971.
1953-1985
Prisons > Soviet Union > History.
Internment camps > Soviet Union > History.
Prisons > URSS > Histoire.
Camps d'internement > URSS > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Internment camps.
Politics and government.
Prisons.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1953-1985.
Soviet Union.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A Gulag without Stalin
  • Restructuring the penal empire: administration, institutions, and demographics
  • Reorienting the aims of imprisonment: production, re-education, and control
  • Oversight and assistance: the role of the procuracy and other outside agencies in penal operations
  • Undoing the reforms: the campaign against "liberalism" in the Gulag
  • A Khrushchevian synthesis: the birth of the late Soviet penal system
  • Khrushchev's reforms and the late (and post- ) Soviet Gulag.

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