Death and Redemption : : The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society / / Steven A. Barnes.

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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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 2 halftones. 1 table.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Origins, Functions, and Institutions of the Gulag
  • Chapter 2. Reclaiming the Margins and the Marginal: Gulag Practices in Karaganda , 1930s
  • Chapter 3. Categorizing Prisoners : The Identities of the Gulag
  • Chapter 4. Armageddon and the Gulag , 1939-1945
  • Chapter 5. A New Circle of Hell: The Postwar Gulag and the Rise of the Special Camps
  • Chapter 6. The Crash of the Gulag : Releases and Uprisings in the Post-Stalin Era
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index