LEADER 07619cam a2200709 i 4500001 268404 005 20240621232706.0 007 ta 008 161025s2016 pau b 001 0 eng 010 2016039768 015 GBB812391 |2bnb 019 1005084668 020 9780822944645 |q(hardback) 020 0822944642 |q(hardback) 024 8 99970340833 035 (OCoLC)ocn951158234 035 268404 042 pcc 043 e-ur--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dFWA |dYDX |dNRC |dCHVBK |dXFF |dOCLCO |dUWW |dEZ9 |dOCLCQ |dPAU |dUKMGB |dIUL |dOCLCO |dLHM 050 00 HV8964.S65 |bS68 2016 245 04 The Soviet Gulag : |bevidence, interpretation, and comparison / |cedited by Michael David-Fox. 264 1 Pittsburgh, Pa. : |bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, |c2016. 300 xi, 434 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 340 |nregular print 490 1 Pitt series in Russian and East European studies 490 1 Kritika historical studies 520 "Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. But modern research is developing a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. There is a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, many not isolated in far-off Siberia; prisoners often intermingled with local populations. The forced labor system was not completely distinct from the "free" labor of ordinary Soviet citizens, as convicts and non-prisoners often worked side-by-side. Nor was the Gulag unique when viewed in a global historical context. Still, the scale and scope of the Soviet Gulag was unprecedented. Intrinsic to Stalinist modernization, the Gulag was tasked with the construction of massive public works, scientific and engineering projects, and such mundane work as road repairs. Along with the collectivization of agriculture, the Soviet economy (including its military exertions in World War II) was in large part dependent on compulsory labor. The camp system took on an outsized economic significance, and the vast numbers of people taken in by zealous secret police were meant to fulfill material, not just political, goals. While the Soviet system lacked the explicitly dedicated extermination camps of its Nazi counterpart, it did systematically extract work from inmates to the verge of death then cynically "released" them to reduce officially reported mortality rates. In an original turn, the book offers a detailed consideration of the Gulag in the context of the similar camps and systems of internment. Chapters are devoted to the juxtaposition of nineteenth-century British concentration camps in Africa and India, the Tsarist-era system of exile in Siberia, Chinese and North Korean reeducation camps, the post-Soviet penal system in the Russian Federation, and of course the infamous camp system of Nazi Germany. This not only reveals the close relatives, antecedents, and descendants of the Soviet Gulag--it shines a light on a frighteningly widespread feature of late modernity. Overall, The Soviet Gulag offers fascinating new interpretations of the interrelationship and importance of the Gulag to the larger Soviet political and economic system, and how they were in fact parts of the same entity"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. This volume develops a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. It brings a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, the forced labor system, and the Gulag as viewed in a global historical context, among many other topics. It also offers fascinating new interpretations of the interrelationship and importance of the Gulag to the larger Soviet political and economic system, and how they were in fact, parts of the same entity"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |gChapter 1. |tIntroduction: from bounded to juxtapositional -- new histories of the Gulag / |rMichael David-Fox -- |gPart I. |tEvidence and interpretation -- |gChapter 2. |tGulag and the Non-Gulag as one interrelated whole / |rOleg Khlevniuk -- |gChapter 3. |tDestructive labor camps: rethinking Solzhenitsyn's play on words / |rGolfo Alexopoulos -- |gChapter 4. |tLives in the balance: weak and disabled prisoners and the biopolitics of the Gulag / |rDan Healey -- |gChapter 5. |tScientists and specialists in the Gulag: life and death in Stalin's sharashka / |rAsif Siddiqi -- |gChapter 6. |tForced labor on the home front: the Gulag and total war in Western Siberia, 1940-1945 / |rWilson T. Bell -- |gChapter 7. |t(Un)Returned from the Gulag: life trajectories and integration of postwar special settlers / |rEmilia Koustova -- |gChapter 8. |tA visual history of the Gulag: nine theses / |rAglaya K. Glebova -- |gPart II. |tComparison -- |gChapter 9. |tPenal deportation to Siberia and the limits of State power, 1801-1881 / |rDaniel Beer -- |gChapter 10. |tBritain's archipelago of camps: labor and detention in a Liberal Empire, 1871-1903 / |rAidan Forth -- |gChapter 11. |tCamp worlds and forced labor: a comparison of the National Socialist and Soviet camp systems / |rDietrich Beyrau -- |gChapter 12. |t"Repaying blood debt": the Chinese labor camp system during the 1950s / |rKlaus Mulhähn -- |gChapter 13. |tOrigins and evolution of the North Korean prison camps: a comparison with the Soviet Gulag / |rSungmin Cho -- |gChapter 14. |tGulag as the crucible of Russia's twenty-first-century system of punishments / |rJudith Pallot -- |gChapter 15. |tGulag: an incarnation of the State that created it / |rBettina Greiner. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 610 20 GULag NKVD |xHistory. 610 27 GULag NKVD. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00708813 610 27 Internierungslager Évaux-les-Bains. |2gnd |0(DE-588)7681808-1 610 27 Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava. |2gnd |0(DE-588)1001167-5 650 0 Nazi concentration camps |zSoviet Union |xHistory. 650 0 Internment camps |zSoviet Union |xHistory. 650 0 Prisons |zSoviet Union |xHistory. 650 0 Political prisoners |zSoviet Union. 650 0 Forced labor |zSoviet Union |xHistory. 651 0 Soviet Union |xPolitics and government |y1917-1936. 651 0 Soviet Union |xPolitics and government |y1936-1953. 650 7 HISTORY |zEurope |xRussia & the Former Soviet Union. |2bisacsh 650 7 Concentration camps. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00872933 650 7 Forced labor. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00931594 650 7 Political prisoners. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01069636 650 7 Politics and government. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 Prisons. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01077326 651 7 Soviet Union. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210281 650 7 Zwangsarbeit. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4139439-2 650 7 Internationaler Vergleich. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4120509-1 648 7 1917-1953 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 David-Fox, Michael, |d1965- |eeditor. 830 0 Series in Russian and East European studies. 830 0 Kritika historical studies (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 852 0 |bstacks |hHV8964.S65 |iS68 2016