New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 0300179413; ISBN13: 978-0300179415. 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,...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0300179448; ISBN13: 978-0300179446. This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0691151121; ISBN13: 978-0691151120. Death and Redemption offers 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 means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed...
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 2007, pp. 67-103 (Review) The arrests were admittedly indiscriminate and designed to inspire terror and disorientation. Some were taken off the street. Others were surprised in their beds in late-night roundups. One man was detained simply because he had a long beard, which suggested he might be a...
Paragon House, 1986. — 138 p. — ISBN10: 0913729043; ISBN13: 978-0913729045. Celmina, a Latvian who now lives in the West, spent the years from 1962 to 1966 in a Soviet prison camp for having foreign magazines in her possession, despite the fact that she was a translator. Her story of those years contains much that is, unfortunately, familiarthe cold, the dreariness, the...
Oxford, New York, Toronto, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1979. — 256 p. A book about the most notorious of Soviet death camps in the Siberian region. More than 3,000,000 people died under the cruel auspices of the Hammer and Sickle. This book is about the worst camp in communism. This excellent historical work gives us a painstaking account of a subject only barely...
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1566635217; ISBN13: 978-15666352 Long before Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) shocked the Western world with its frightening description of a typical day in a forced-labor camp during the Stalin era, some readers in the West already knew of prison life in the Soviet Union, the Eastern bloc, and...
Boston [Brighton], MA: Academic Studies Press (Myths and Taboos in Russian Culture), 2014 ‒ 250 p. ‒ ISBN: 978-1-618112-88-0 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-618112-89-7 (electronic). Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag...
New York: Metropolitan, 2013. Quality: originally electronic Just Send Me Word; A true story of love of Lev and Svetlana Mishchenko, who survived 14 years of separation due to World War II and Lev's imprisonment in a Gulag - Soviet forced labour camp. Orlando Figes based his book upon the true story of Lev and Svetlana with most of his account based upon the contents of...
New York: Metropolitan, 2013. Quality: originally electronic. Just Send Me Word; A true story of love of Lev and Svetlana Mishchenko, who survived 14 years of separation due to World War II and Lev's imprisonment in a Gulag - Soviet forced labour camp. Orlando Figes based his book upon the true story of Lev and Svetlana with most of his account based upon the contents of...
New York: Metropolitan, 2013. Quality: originally electronic Just Send Me Word; A true story of love of Lev and Svetlana Mishchenko, who survived 14 years of separation due to World War II and Lev's imprisonment in a Gulag - Soviet forced labour camp. Orlando Figes based his book upon the true story of Lev and Svetlana with most of his account based upon the contents of...
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2003. — 212 p. Much has been written about the Gulag as an institution of penal slavery inflicted upon millions and as the ultimate symbol of Soviet terror. Until now, however, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily due to lack of data. This collection,...
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2013. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0817915745; ISBN13: 978-0817915742 — (Hoover Institution Press Publication. Book 631) During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and...
Curriculum for high school students. David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin, and Thomas Lamont, National Park Service/Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, n.d., 58 pgs., PDF, 1MB. Most countries have prison systems where those convicted of crimes serve out their sentences. Citizens of these countries believe that people who commit crimes should be punished...
Translated by Deborah Kaple Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. - 229 c. Quality: originally electronic At 22, Fyodor Mochulsky was chosen to supervise the construction of a railway in the Arctic north to guarantee coal supplies in the coming war with Hitler. He defends the project as vital and insists that he improved conditions. He even writes of “the happiness and pride of work”. It is...
Berkeley: University of California, 1970. — 110 p. Early years World War II At Auschwitz/Birkenau Return to Hungary Arrest and «Trial» by Smersh An N.K.V.D. Prestige Operation Siberia Camp Life The Special World of the Criminals Women Prisoners «Reform» Measures After Stalin The Arctic (1951) Kolyma Central Asia (1953) Karaganda The Revolt at Dzhezghazghan To Frunze,...
Berkeley: University of California, 1970. — 110 p. Early years World War II At Auschwitz/Birkenau Return to Hungary Arrest and «Trial» by Smersh An N.K.V.D. Prestige Operation Siberia Camp Life The Special World of the Criminals Women Prisoners «Reform» Measures After Stalin The Arctic (1951) Kolyma Central Asia (1953) Karaganda The Revolt at Dzhezghazghan To Frunze,...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 360 p. — ISBN10: 0199658617; ISBN13: 978-0199658619 — (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series) This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance and punishment in contemporary Russia. Using established penological and...
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. — 364 p. — ISBN10: 0742511464; ISBN13: 978-0742511460 This engrossing collection of prison memoirs by Russian women is the first to portray the direct experiences of the wide range of women who were incarcerated in Soviet prisons and camps. Comprising the stories of women from all classes and backgrounds, this book covers the...
Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 1984. — 396 p. — ISBN: 1-4000-7078-3 Margaret Werner moved from Detroit, MI to Gorky, USSR in 1932, when she was 10 years old. Her father, Carl, worked for Ford and chose to leave the uncertain job environment of the Depression era and take a job in the Soviet Union, helping them develop their auto industry. Unfortunately, they were unaware...
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