Illness and inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag
By: Golfo Alexopoulos
Series: The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes; Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780300179415
Subjects: Concentration camps; Conscript labor; World War, 1939-1945; GULag NKVD; Soviet Prisoners and prisons; History; Forced labor; Political persecution
Description: "A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of the Stalinist terror. In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps. The first study to examine the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: "Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : exploiting "human raw material"; title: Food : "whoever does not work, shall not eat"; title: Prisoners : "the contingent"; title: Health : "physical labor capability"; title: Illness and mortality : "lost labor days"; title: Invalids : "Inferior workforce"; title: Releases : "unloading the ballast"; title: Power : "we are not doctors but delousers"; title: Selection : "the more (and less) valuable human element"; title: Exploitation : "labor utilization"; title: Epilogue : deaths and deceptions.