| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
| Series |
Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War |
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Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-322) and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp) -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp) fast |
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Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History
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Labor camps -- Soviet Union -- History
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Prisons -- Soviet Union -- History
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Coal mines and mining -- Soviet Union -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Coal mines and mining
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Forced labor
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Labor camps
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Manners and customs
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Prisons
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Vorkuta (Komi, Russia) -- History
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Vorkuta (Komi, Russia) -- Social life and customs
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Russia (Federation) -- Vorkuta (Komi)
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014934005 |
| ISBN |
9780300206821 |
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0300206828 |
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