Death and Redemption : The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society /

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Death and Redemption 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,...

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Main Author: Barnes, Steven Anthony (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
GULag NKVD.
Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU.
GULag NKVD > History.
Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU > History.
Social conditions.
Prisons > Social aspects.
Prisons.
Prisoners > Social conditions.
Internment camps > Social aspects.
Internment camps.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Travail force > Aspect social > URSS > Histoire.
Prisonniers > URSS > Conditions sociales.
Prisonniers politiques > URSS > Conditions sociales.
Prisons > Aspect social > URSS > Histoire.
Prisons > URSS > Histoire.
Camps d'internement > Aspect social > URSS > Histoire.
Camps d'internement > URSS > Histoire.
Forced labor > Social aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Prisoners > Soviet Union > Social conditions.
Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Social conditions.
Prisons > Social aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Prisons > Soviet Union > History.
Internment camps > Social aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Internment camps > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union.
URSS > Conditions sociales.
Soviet Union > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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