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 …
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. T…
Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories of the Gulag, and particu…
