Gulag town, company town : forced labor and its legacy in Vorkuta / Alan Barenberg.
2014
HV8964.S65 B37 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Gulag town, company town : forced labor and its legacy in Vorkuta / Alan Barenberg.
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ISBN
9780300179446 hardcover
0300179448 hardcover
0300179448 hardcover
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Language
English
Language Note
Text in English.
Description
xv, 331 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HV8964.S65 B37 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.11/73094743
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-322) and index.
Series
Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
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Table of 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.
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.