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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Bibliographic Details
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.
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Summary: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, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society.
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages).
ISBN:9781400838615

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