Research Catalog

Title

Death and redemption : the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society / Steven A. Barnes.

Author

Barnes, Steven Anthony.

Publication

Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.

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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

Description

x, 352 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This book 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. The author argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who "failed" never got out alive

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Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU > History
• GULag NKVD > History
• Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU
• GULag NKVD
• Internierungslager Évaux-les-Bains
• Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
• Internment camps > Soviet Union > History
• Internment camps > History. > Soviet Union
• Prisons > Soviet Union > History
• Prisons > History. > Soviet Union
• Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Social conditions
• Prisoners > Soviet Union > Social conditions
• Forced labor > History. > Soviet Union
• Camps d'internement > URSS > Histoire
• Camps d'internement > Histoire. > URSS
• Prisons > URSS > Histoire
• Prisons > Histoire. > URSS
• Prisonniers politiques > URSS > Conditions sociales
• Prisonniers > URSS > Conditions sociales
• Travail forcé > Histoire. > URSS
• Internment camps
• Internment camps > Social aspects
• Prisoners > Social conditions
• Prisons
• Prisons > Social aspects
• Social conditions
• Strafkampen
• Politieke gevangenen
• Reïntegratie (sociaal)
• Concentration camps > Russia > History
• Prisons > Russia > History
• Political prisoners > Russia
• Forced labor > Russia > History
• Koncentrationsläger > Sovjetunionen
• Politiska fångar > sociala förhållanden > Sovjetunionen
• Arbetsläger > historia > Sovjetunionen > 1900-talet
• Soviet Union > Social conditions
• URSS > Conditions sociales
• Soviet Union
• Sovjet-Unie
• Sovjetunionen > sociala förhållanden > 1925-1953

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The origins, functions, and institutions of the Gulag -- Reclaiming the margins and the marginal : Gulag practices in Karaganda's 1930s -- Categorizing prisoners : the identities of the Gulag -- Armageddon and 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.

ISBN

• 9780691151083
• 0691151083
• 9780691151120
• 0691151121

LCCN

• 2010047824
• 2027/heb.32748
• 40019295570

OCLC

• 687685337
• SCSB-12055831

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library