Death and redemption : the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society / Steven A. Barnes.

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Barnes, Steven Anthony [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400838615
1400838614
1283101483
9781283101486
9786613101488
6613101486

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Death and redemption.DDC classification:

365/.4509470904 22

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HV9712 .B27 2011eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 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.