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1 online resource (x, 352 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. Millions w. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History.
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Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU. |
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History. |
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GULag NKVD -- History.
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GULag NKVD. |
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Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU. |
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GULag NKVD. |
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Nazi concentration camps -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Internment camps -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Nazi concentration camps. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Nazi concentration camps -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Internment camps -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Nazi concentration camps -- Social aspects. |
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Prisons -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Prisons. |
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Prisons -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Prisons -- Social aspects. |
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Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
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Political prisoners. |
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Social conditions. |
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Prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
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Prisoners. |
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Forced labor -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Forced labor. |
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Social aspects. |
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Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barnes, Steven Anthony. Death and redemption. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691151083 (DLC) 2010047824 (OCoLC)687685337 |
| ISBN |
9781400838615 (electronic book) |
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1400838614 (electronic book) |
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9780691151083 |
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0691151083 |
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9780691151120 |
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0691151121 |
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