"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 tha…
"In this book, Dan Stone gives a global history of concentration camps, and shows that it is not only 'mad dictators' who have set up camps, but instead all varieties of states, including liberal democracies, that have made use of them. Setting concentration camps against the lo…
Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
Focusing on the major cases of genocide in twentieth-century Europe, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust and genocide in the former Yugoslavia, as well as mass killing in the Soviet Union, this book outlines the internal and external roots of genocide. Internal causes…
La France des camps: l'internement, 1938-1946
Der SS-Staat: das System der Deutschen Konzentrationslager
by Kogon, Eugen
fromHeyne-Bücher
En 1944, Robert Antelme, membre de la résistance, est arrêté et envoyé en déportation. Il va rester quelques mois à Gandersheim, un kommando proche de Buchenwald où il fera différents travaux extérieurs avant de travailler dans une usine dans des conditions très éprouvantes. Alo…
Publisher's description: This classic text argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Since the second edition was published in 1994, prison populations, especially in Russia and America, have grown at an increasingly rapid rate. This …