Death and Redemption The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society

Name: Death and Redemption The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
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ISBN: 9780691151120

ISBN-10: 0691151121

ISBN-13: 9780691151120

Edition: 2011

Authors: Steven A. Barnes

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Death and Redemptionoffers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the will to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 0.10" wide x 0.10" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Origins, Functions, and Institutions of the Gulag



Reclaiming the Margins and the Marginal: Gulag Practices in Karaganda, 1930s



Categorizing Prisoners: The Identities of the Gulag



Armageddon and the Gulag, 1939-1945



A New Circle of Hell: The Postwar Gulag and the Rise of the Special Camps



The Crash of the Gulag: Releases and Uprisings in the Post-Stalin Era


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index