Death and redemption: the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Beteilige Person: Barnes, Steven A. 1971- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2011
Schlagwörter:
Links:https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691151120.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838615
https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691151120.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838615
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (X, 352 Seiten)
ISBN:9781400838615
DOI:10.1515/9781400838615