Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta
(Part of the Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes Series)
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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 center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish social...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300179448
ISBN13:9780300179446
Release Date:August 2014
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"
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