Death and redemption : the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society
by
Barnes, Steven Anthony.
Title
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Death and redemption : the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society
Author
:
Barnes, Steven Anthony.
ISBN
:
9781400838615
Publication Information
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (x, 352 pages)
Abstract
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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.
Corporate Subject
:
Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History.
GULag NKVD -- History.
Subject Term
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Concentration camps -- Soviet Union -- History.
Concentration camps -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Prisons -- Soviet Union -- History.
Prisons -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
Prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
Forced labor -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 375384-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |