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The Soviet Gulag : evidence, interpretation, and comparison / edited by Michael David-Fox.
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English
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Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
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xi, 434 pages ; 24 cm
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HV8964.S65 S68 2016
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Internment camps
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Soviet Union
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History
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Prisons
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Soviet Union
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History
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Political prisoners
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Soviet Union
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Forced labor
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Soviet Union
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History
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Soviet Union
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Politics and government
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1917-1936
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Soviet Union
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Politics and government
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1936-1953
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GULag NKVD
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History
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Editor
David-Fox, Michael, 1965-
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Series
Series in Russian and East European studies
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Kritika historical studies (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Kritika historical studies
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"Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. But modern research is developing a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. There is a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, many not isolated in far-off Siberia; prisoners often intermingled with local populations. The forced labor system was not completely distinct from the "free" labor of ordinary Soviet citizens, as convicts and non-prisoners often worked side-by-side. Nor was the Gulag unique when viewed in a global historical context. Still, the scale and scope of the Soviet Gulag was unprecedented. Intrinsic to Stalinist modernization, the Gulag was tasked with the construction of massive public works, scientific and engineering projects, and such mundane work as road repairs. Along with the collectivization of agriculture, the Soviet economy (including its military exertions in World War II) was in large part dependent on compulsory labor. The camp system took on an outsized economic significance, and the vast numbers of people taken in by zealous secret police were meant to fulfill material, not just political, goals. While the Soviet system lacked the explicitly dedicated extermination camps of its Nazi counterpart, it did systematically extract work from inmates to the verge of death then cynically "released" them to reduce officially reported mortality rates. In an original turn, the book offers a detailed consideration of the Gulag in the context of the similar camps and systems of internment. Chapters are devoted to the juxtaposition of nineteenth-century British concentration camps in Africa and India, the Tsarist-era system of exile in Siberia, Chinese and North Korean reeducation camps, the post-Soviet penal system in the Russian Federation, and of course the infamous camp system of Nazi Germany. This not only reveals the close relatives, antecedents, and descendants of the Soviet Gulag--it shines a light on a frighteningly widespread feature of late modernity. Overall, The Soviet Gulag offers fascinating new interpretations of the interrelationship and importance of the Gulag to the larger Soviet political and economic system, and how they were in fact parts of the same entity"-- Provided by publisher.
"Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. This volume develops a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. It brings a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, the forced labor system, and the Gulag as viewed in a global historical context, among many other topics. It also offers fascinating new interpretations of the interrelationship and importance of the Gulag to the larger Soviet political and economic system, and how they were in fact, parts of the same entity"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-414) and index.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: from bounded to juxtapositional
new histories of the Gulag / Michael David-Fox
Part I. Evidence and interpretation
Chapter 2. The Gulag and the Non-Gulag as one interrelated whole / Oleg Khlevniuk
Chapter 3. Destructive labor camps: rethinking Solzhenitsyn's play on words / Golfo Alexopoulos
Chapter 4. Lives in the balance: weak and disabled prisoners and the biopolitics of the Gulag / Dan Healey
Chapter 5. Scientists and specialists in the Gulag: life and death in Stalin's sharashka / Asif Siddiqi
Chapter 6. Forced labor on the home front: the Gulag and total war in Western Siberia, 1940-1945 / Wilson T. Bell
Chapter 7. (Un)Returned from the Gulag: life trajectories and integration of postwar special settlers / Emilia Koustova
Chapter 8. A visual history of the Gulag: nine theses / Aglaya K. Glebova
Part II. Comparison
Chapter 9. Penal deportation to Siberia and the limits of State power, 1801-1881 / Daniel Beer
Chapter 10. Britain's archipelago of camps: labor and detention in a Liberal Empire, 1871-1903 / Aidan Forth
Chapter 11. Camp worlds and forced labor: a comparison of the National Socialist and Soviet camp systems / Dietrich Beyrau
Chapter 12. "Repaying blood debt": the Chinese labor camp system during the 1950s / Klaus Mulhähn
Chapter 13. The origins and evolution of the North Korean prison camps: a comparison with the Soviet Gulag / Sungmin Cho
Chapter 14. The Gulag as the crucible of Russia's twenty-first-century system of punishments / Judith Pallot
Chapter 15. The Gulag: an incarnation of the State that created it / Bettina Greiner.
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ISBN
9780822944645 ((hardback))
0822944642 ((hardback))
LCCN
2016039768
OCLC
951158234
Other standard number
99970340833
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