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A fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance. Appleb…
A fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance. Appleb…
Revealing for the first time official documents, held in the Moscow archives of the Soviet forced labour system, this book assesses previous western and Russian studies of the Gulag and describes its origins. The bulk of the book concentrates on the labour camps during World War…
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
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.
Storie di uomini giusti nel Gulag
by Convegno internazionale "I giusti nel Gulag. Il valore della resistenza morale al totalitarismo sovietico", Milan, Italy), Nissim, Gabriele, Rapetti, Sergio, Battista, Pierluigi, Comitato per la foresta mondiale dei giusti
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Storie di uomini giusti nel Gulag
by Convegno internazionale "I giusti nel Gulag. Il valore della resistenza morale al totalitarismo sovietico", Milan, Italy), Nissim, Gabriele, Rapetti, Sergio, Battista, Pierluigi, Comitato per la foresta mondiale dei giusti
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Rethinking the Gulag: identities, sources, legacies
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"The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied insti…
Aggarwal's study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interes…
Between 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of an attempt to redress the excesses of the Stalin era. In this work, the author explores the impact of these returnees, both political and criminal, on …