The Gulag after Stalin : : Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev's Soviet Union, 1953-1964 / / Jeffrey S. Hardy.
In The Gulag after Stalin, Jeffrey S. Hardy reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin's death. Hardy argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a humane institution that reeducated criminals...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. A Gulag without Stalin
- 1. Restructuring the Penal Empire: Administration, Institutions, and Demographics
- 2. Reorienting the Aims of Imprisonment: Production, Reeducation, and Control
- 3. Oversight and Assistance: The Role of the Procuracy and Other Outside Agencies in Penal Operations
- 4. Undoing the Reforms: The Campaign against "Liberalism" in the Gulag
- 5. A Khrushchevian Synthesis: The Birth of the Late Soviet Penal System
- Conclusions. Khrushchev's Reforms and the Late (and Post-)Soviet Gulag
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index