The history of the Gulag
Subtitle: from collectivization to the great terror
By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk ; translated by Vadim A. Staklo ; with editorial assistance and commentary by David J. Nordlander ; foreword by Robert Conquest.
Series: Annals of Communism
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Concentration camps -- Soviet Union -- History; Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History; Political prisoners -- Soviet Union; Prisons -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Politics and government
Description: "The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a thorough historical study of this unique and tragic episode in Soviet history. This book presents the first comprehensive, historically accurate account of the camp system. Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk has mined the contents of extensive archives, including long-suppressed state and Communist Party documents, to uncover the secrets of the Gulag and how it became a central component of Soviet ideology and social policy."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-394) and indexes.