Death and redemption
Subtitle: the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society
By: Steven A. Barnes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780691151083; 9780691151120
Subjects: Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU; Concentration camps; Prisons; Social conditions; Political prisoners; Prisoners; Forced labor; GULag NKVD; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins, functions, and institutions of the Gulag; title: Reclaiming the margins and the marginal : Gulag practices in Karaganda's 1930s; title: Categorizing prisoners : the identities of the Gulag; title: Armageddon and Gulag : 1939-1945; title: A new circle of hell : the postwar Gulag and the rise of the special camps; title: The crash of the Gulag : releases and uprisings in the post-Stalin era.