Title: Illness and inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag
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.
Subjects: Concentration camps, Conscript labor, World War, 1939-1945, GULag NKVD, Soviet Prisoners and prisons, History, Forced labor, Political persecution, Soviet union, politics and government
Places: Soviet Union
People: Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)
Time periods: 20th century, 1925-1953