Gulag Town, Company Town - Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

Offers a reassessment of the infamous "Gulag Archipelago" by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. This study makes an important historical contribution to our understanding of forced labour in the Soviet Union and its enduring legacy. Zusammenfassung Offers a reassessment of the infamous "Gulag Archipelago" by exploring the history of Vorkuta! an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. This study makes an important historical contribution to our understanding of forced labour in the Soviet Union and its enduring legacy.

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• Authors: Alan Barenberg, Barenberg Alan, Sheila R. Canby
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2014
• EAN: 9780300179446
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17944-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin,; Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes; Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era