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Gulag town, company town : forced labor and its legacy in Vorkuta
Author
Title
Gulag town, company town : forced labor and its legacy in Vorkuta / Alan Barenberg.
ISBN
0300206828
9780300179446
0300179448
9780300206821
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Text in English.
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Summary
"The notorious Soviet Gulag gets a radical reinterpretation in this remarkable work of cutting-edge history. By examining the history of Vorkuta, an Arctic coal-mining outpost established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex, Alan Barenberg's insightful study tests the idea that the Gulag was an 'archipelago' separated from Soviet society at large"--Cover.
Variant and related titles
Forced labor and its legacy in Vorkuta
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2024
Series
Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-322) and index.
Contents
Introduction
From the margins to the home front: Vorkuta as an outpost
Saving Leningrad, defining Vorkuta: a camp and a city at war
In search of "normalcy": Vorkuta during postwar Stalinism
Vorkuta in crisis: reform and its consequences
The "second birth" of Vorkuta: forging the company town
From prisoners to citizens? Ex-prisoners and the transformation of Vorkuta
Epilogue.
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