Origins Of The Gulag : The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934 /

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A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jakobson, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prisons.
Politics and government.
Forced labor.
Internment camps.
HISTORY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Travail force > URSS > Histoire.
Camps d'internement > URSS > Histoire.
Prisons > URSS > Histoire.
Forced labor > Soviet Union > History.
Internment camps > Soviet Union > History.
Prisons > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1917-1936.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to examine the most crucial period in the history of the camps: from the October Revolution of 1917, when the tsarist prison system was destroyed to October 1934, when all places of confinement were consolidated under one agency -- the infamous GULAG. The prison camps served the Soviet government in man.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9780813161389

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